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. I'm Pete, joined by

Darius and Mike. And on Friday, Lakers helped snap the San Antonio Spurs 18 game losing streak in

pretty commanding fashion. It was a wire-to-wire blowout victory. Spurs were up by

20 after the first quarter. Lakers were without Anthony Davis and DeLo and Cam, Gabe Vincent,

of course, and just, yeah, wasn't even that close of a game. And normally we'll dive in the

next pod to kind of the details of that game.

And I think we will maybe a little bit to illustrate a bigger point.

But tonight's game is against the New York Knicks.

And it's the 27th game of the season, not counting the IST championship game, which is kind of the one-third mark of the season.

And so we're going to zoom out a little bit.

D. Darbinham has been calling

this first part of the year a period of discovery. This is somewhat complicated by the

Lakers injury issues, right? And this is something that Lakers are far from alone in this respect,

but I sent you guys a stat yesterday that we're 14 and 6 in the games where we're not without like four plus

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