It's the Big Lead with Jason McIntyre. Jason McIntyre explains how Isaiah Thomas needs to take a page out of Nick Foles' playbook and learn from his failure (1:03), why the Lakers might be walking into LeBron's friend-zone (24:30), why continued development of new analytics is ruining sports (1:37:35) and more. LA Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke joins the show (1:05:15) to breakdown the moves made by the Lakers at the trade deadline, discuss Lonzo Ball's development and DeAdndre Jordan's lack of adaptation to the new NBA.