What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do 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, Laker fans? Welcome to Laker Filmroom podcast, brought to you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined as always by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to talk some L.A. Clippers and Phoenix Suns. The Ali Clippers survive tonight in unlikely circumstances with a double-digit win on the road to pull out game five to bring the series to three to two.

And from a Laker fan perspective, there are complicated emotions tied up in that.

Paul George goes for 30 in the second half, right?

I think he's not like, shot just a ridiculous percentage in the second half. And this is something I've been thinking about lately in watching these playoffs guys is that I have two

loyalties when it comes to basketball. One is to the Lakers, obviously, right? And that's,

that's my team through which I identify with and have since birth when it

comes to the sport of basketball but my other loyalty is to the actual sport of basketball where

i can have fun at a nine and under game right like i can have fun at a high school game at a jv high

school game that's a division four type level game where

there's something just about the sport that is really attractive to me. And it's such a big

part of my life that I've realized that I've developed a certain set of principles around

that with respect to both being a Laker, but also the sport of basketball, right, in terms of

what I believe in, how I think the game should be played. And it's not to say it's right or it's wrong. It's just what I

believe. And it's what's been formed over my experience with basketball over a lifetime.

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