Are LeBron and the Lakers a House of Cards?
The Lead
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Lakers have the best record in the Western Conference and the second best record in the NBA. But LeBron just turned 35 years old, spent most of last season injured, and hasn't been rested much this season. The Athletic's Andy and Brian Kamenetzky join us to discuss the Lakers' impressive start, how they've been managing their aging superstar, and what might happen if he went down.
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| 0:00.0 | LaBron and the Lakers have been tearing it up all season. |
| 0:11.6 | James isolating against Donjage Abom, you bet! |
| 0:17.2 | LaBron James is delivering! |
| 0:21.0 | Heading into tonight's game against the Knicks, they're 29 and 7 and sitting pretty at |
| 0:25.6 | top of the Western Conference. |
| 0:27.4 | Let's not forget, it wasn't long ago that this Lakers team and this organization was a hot, |
| 0:34.3 | hot mess. |
| 0:35.9 | Lakers are a mesh to power struggle. |
| 0:38.6 | The organization right now is not aligned on any level. |
| 0:43.1 | Today we're joined by the Athletics Kaminetski brothers Andy and Brian to talk about how |
| 0:48.1 | the Lakers have become bona fide title contenders so quickly. |
| 0:52.6 | But also, just how tenuous this whole situation might be. |
| 0:57.9 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:00.5 | And I'm Kavita Davidson, it's Tuesday, January 7th. |
| 1:05.1 | TACO TOOSDAY! |
| 1:08.1 | And this is the lead. |
| 1:09.6 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:13.8 | There was just something about the emotion and that moment. |
| 1:17.6 | The days of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:21.8 | You can't play MC, you can't play MC. |
| 1:24.8 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:29.0 | It stays with you. |
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