What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

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

you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.

Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blue R podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today's episode, we're going to break down the schedule. It came out a couple weeks ago, but we've had so many players and, you know,

elements to get into with such roster turnover

that we haven't had a chance to.

But Mike,

you, but we've had so many players and, you know, elements to get into with such roster turnover that we haven't had a chance to. But Mike, you wrote a great piece for Lakers.com a couple weeks back where you really got into the minutiae of it. So I think you're the man to lead the way on this. Where do you want to start? You guys know this. I get excited, okay, when the schedule comes out. It's usually, it's almost always, if you take out the pandemic years, in August when everything else is finally cooled down.

And it's the chance to really start to visualize what's going to happen next year.

And I do think it matters.

I do think the schedule matters in the NBA.

And the Lakers, just so the start of the season being pretty soft, that's where we're

going to start here.

But overall, I thought this was a very favorable schedule for the Lakers for many, many

reasons of which we'll get into.

And it's the kind of thing that can make the difference in a, you know, a one seed versus a three seat.

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