Any Bigs in the Draft?

Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Pete and Darius are joined by Mike Garcia to discuss the NBA Draft, specifically looking at center prospects and whether the Lakers can find someone to fill their need for a big on draft night. And then later, the guys broaden their discussion second round sleeper targets who could be available when the Lakers make their selection at #55 overall. Support Pete here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lakerfilmroom Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/lakerfilmroom Pete’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LakerFilmRoom Pete’s Playback: https://www.playback.tv/lakerfilmroom For Feedback or Questions: [email protected] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 part show
0:15.5	because once the game starts, you have a game face.
0:17.7	You don't smile much out there.
0:20.3	I don't think you have to do things for money anymore.
0:22.9	Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by
0:27.7	Darius. And today is one of my favorite pods of the year. I've been talking to today's guest
0:33.5	about the draft for good 20 years now. Signed in about 2005. Yeah, I can't believe it.
0:39.8	And in our talks coming up on this pod, he told me this was the most challenging draft yet,
0:47.0	which has me very intrigued. Mike Garcia, welcome back to the show, my man. How are you doing?
0:51.8	Well, thank you for having me.
0:53.4	So what is behind that, Mike?
0:55.2	You're not one for superlatives, but the most challenging draft.
0:58.7	What's behind that?
1:00.0	So there's a couple things, but the primary thing is really the NIL contracts and how they affected the draft crop altogether.
1:15.7	So usually I look at around 100, 160 players,
1:21.4	every draft crop, even just a brief look just to see what they all look like. This year,
1:30.1	it's more like 100. So now the crop is shrunk quite a time. And now there are also international players that were eligible for this draft. Quite a few that I actually liked, but they elected to go to school. So it's
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