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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

38 Special

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Happy Birthday LeBron James! On the day that LeBron celebrates his 38th birthday, Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the incomparable level of production he's bringing in his 20th season, the prospects of him keeping up this level of play for seasons to come, and whether him playing this well creates urgency for the Lakers to improve the team this season — particularly in the wake of his comments after the Heat game.

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0:00.0

What do you think about the Laker team now?

0:03.4

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

0:06.0

Just the Lakers.

0:07.3

You're kidding.

0:08.6

That is really a compliment.

0:12.8

I was pleased to see you smile at the top of our show because once the game starts,

0:16.7

you have a game face.

0:17.8

You don't smile much out there.

0:20.4

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And a very happy 38th birthday to LeBron James. And so last couple pods, we've been very zoomed in, really on our guards, just a lot of

0:38.1

the on-court tidbits. In this one, we're going to zoom out a little bit and talk all things,

0:42.9

LeBron James. And so earlier in the year, in particular, we had a lot of discussion on this

0:49.4

pod on what LeBron is and is not capable of in year 20. And Eric Sopoldstra had a comment before the

0:57.5

Miami game about how LeBron is pushing forward the limits, or I'm paraphrasing here, but how

1:04.4

LeBron is pushing the limits of human capability in terms of basketball, right? He is by far the

1:10.6

most productive player in NBA

1:12.3

history in his 20th season. And I always think back to Kobe's last tweet, which was when

1:17.5

LeBron passed him on the scoring list. And he said, keep pushing the game forward. And I feel like

1:23.0

that was a directive in many ways to all of us, but he directed it to LeBron in particular. And so,

1:28.9

Mike, earlier this year when I was like, I'm not, you know, I'm going to ride the LeBron

1:33.2

train till the wheels fall off. To me, he's just one of those special people that come along

1:38.7

in, like, oh, you know, once in a lifetime type of people. And I'm not sure where his stardom ends,

1:46.5

but he's playing the best basketball he has of the season just as he turns 38 years old.

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