. >> jimmy: i want to ask you about tommy lasorda, who passed away a few weeks ago.dgers for many years, and also, you guys were the biggest stars in town for, i don't know, 40 years or something like that. how well did you know tommy? >> jimmy, he was the second person that i met in l.a. >> jimmy: really? >> yes. when i signed with the lakers, they want, we want you to go to a dodger game and you're going to meet tommy lasorda. and i was like, wow. what? you know, they'd won the world series, i couldn't wait. and i'm a baseball fan. so i go to the stadium. he sat me down for an hour and gave me a pep talk on l.a., what it means to play in l.a., what it means to be a dodger. i left there, jimmy, i wanted to play basketball, baseball, right then, because he got me fired up! that's who he was. and i sat next to him -- owned the team for eight years. he taught me so much baseball. but he also taught me so many curse words too. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i was looking at some pictures today. i was thinking about you guys. what your relationship may have been. and i was looki