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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike, no darius today. And last night, we had a trio of games starting out with Miami taking a commanding 2-0 lead in a very good game. Atlanta played well in that

game, but Jimmy Butler had 45 points emerging out of nowhere. I suspect he's been kind of holding

some in reserve for the playoffs and certainly closed a very good game down the stretch. Followed then

by a blowout by the number two-seated Memphis Grizzlies. They went down

one-oh to start out and ended up winning that game by 30. And then the nightcap, Mike, I think,

was the most intriguing game of both in terms of how the game actually developed. But the

storyline, right, Devin Booker drops 31, looks incredible in that first half, but

comes up a little gimpy on his, on his hamstring. And hammies are tricky, Mike. And this is

something where you really rightfully pointed out in game one that the Pelicans had some

advantages against Phoenix.

Phoenix struggled against them a bit in ways that I think bore themselves out in game two.

And then the Booker injury combined with that, it's like, uh-oh, is Phoenix in trouble? So where do you view that, Mike?

Like this is, in the blink of an eye, the playoffs very well may have changed. Man, absolutely. And this is the history of the playoffs. This is a, if you sit down with the old Showtime Lakers, one of the first things Michael Thompson will bring up is 88 and the hamstring injuries to Byron into magic. And, oh, 88, 89 season. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so Pat Riley made us run, you know, at the extended camp before the playoffs because there was such a gap there. And that's why they lost. So any year that a team that a really good team loses, usually you can point to at least one type of an injury. I know that the Celtics love to do that whole thing with Kendrick Perkins and game seven, although to me a one game injury is not the same as a guy being out for the whole playoffs. As in the previous time, the Lakers played the Celtics when they didn't have Trevor Risa or Andrew Bynum. And that was certainly a big influence. But so that's, that's now the question, right? So what is this injury with Booker? Is it a, is it a hamstring tightness where he could possibly come back in a day or two? I would say typically you wouldn't see a guy get pulled from the game if it's just tightness. Usually that would be something that he would kind of demand his way back into the floor.

And therefore, if it's some kind of a strain, you know, you're looking at, in apologies for

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