“I was actually on the phone with Pat Riley and D-Wade, I was about to go to Miami,” Barnes said (h/t Jonathan Sherman of Heat Nation). “Cause they were like, wouldn’t really say it, but Bron was coming. … Out of the blue I get a call from Kob from a number I don’t have saved, and I couldn’t believe it was him first of all, and just like, ‘What are you doing?’ I was just like, ‘I thought I was coming back to Orlando. It’s not happening. I’m actually talking to D-Wade and Pat Riley about going to Miami.’ And he’s like, ‘Well s—, you want to be a Laker?’ And I grew up in California, Magic Johnson fan. I’m like, ‘Hell f—— yeah.’ And I tell you four or five days later, I was a Laker.”