New Orleans Pelicans guard Josh Hart has had to do some damage control after he was heard on the Sept. 6 video iteration of his podcast “LightHarted” with some dubious comments about his time with the Los Angeles Lakers organization.

Hart had teammate Lonzo Ball as a guest, first getting his take about the visit to Lithuania to see his brothers LiAngelo and LaMelo play during a venture into professional overseas basketball. Here is the exchange:

Transcript via ESPN:

Ball says, “Lithuania was very depressing. I went there to go visit (my brothers); I wouldn't do it again … It's like hella gloomy, nobody smiles, it's like everybody just hates that they're there. I'm like ‘Damn.' I had to get out of there, bro.”

Hart then jokes, “Sounds like L.A. … No, I'm not talking about the city.”

Ball responds, “I don't know what he's talking about. … Next question. Cut that part out.”

At that point the producer says, “We're gonna edit this part out, so you might as well just tell us.”

Hart laughs and says, “I was going to say the Lakers organization.”

Hart then acknowledged he had to call some of his former teammates to clarify it wasn't about them.

“When my sarcasm, that wasn't supposed to be in that — it was supposed to be cut — was in there, I called some of the people in the [Lakers] front office, I called some of my teammates that I had and made sure they knew that none of this stuff was about you guys,” Hart told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne on Sunday night.

“I loved my time here. I loved my time here and I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I love Laker Nation. They show so much love, so much support.”

Hart didn't specify which people in the Lakers front office he called to clarify the situation, or who the one person he “had a problem with” was, which he alluded to in a tweet after the podcast. But the 6-foot-5 guard admitted he was upset at being blindsided by the deal that sent him, Ball, and Brandon Ingram to the Pelicans.

“Obviously, sometimes things happen quickly,” said Hart. “But I mean, you have of a gist of if something's going to happen. At least that day or something. So just reach out. You know in this league, this is a possibility. Like ‘Hey, you're going to get an all-world player [Davis], I get it. … Cool. No hard feelings.'

“But all you want is just like a heads up, or even — when the deal is final — to get a call or even get a call just the same day and not find out on Twitter, and not get called, days later.”

The Lakers treated the quest for Anthony Davis almost recklessly, forcing then-president of basketball operations Magic Johnson to do some damage control of his own after they failed to get him before the trade deadline. The Lakers had offered nearly their entire roster, lest LeBron James, only for the Pelicans to say no and wait it out for a few more months.

Upon getting a deal done in the summer, it seems the front office didn't care about the human aspect of trading their young core, something Josh Hart took to heart.