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 part 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, guys?

Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast.

It's Mike and Darius today.

And Darius, I'm about to leave on a two-game trip.

We know that it's to Minneapolis and to New Orleans.

Before doing so, though, you know, you and I wanted to get together to discuss

something that we kind of collectively have come upon. But I just was sitting there looking

through during the game when Anthony Davis is going off, right? I'm looking through wind shares

and I'm looking through, you know, P.E.R. And a little bit less so on the offensive and defensive rating and the net rating just because of all of the lineups that, um, that 80's been carrying that I think of drags on that value down.

And I was thinking, you know what? Anthony Davis is currently the best American player in the world. And there are some arguments. Okay. I'm not saying that it's 100% definitive,

but I think that there's a very strong case for that. And so win shares, just as one stat,

here's here's the ranking. Yokic 1, Shea 2, Embed 3, Yonis 4, Anthony Davis 5.

So it's just one stat. It doesn't encompass everything, but it supports this concept.

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