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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And it's good to be back. A lot has happened in our Lakers novella since last I was on the pod. And at the end of last week, forgive my absence, Kobe statue went up, as you know,

on the eighth. And that was probably the biggest event for my work and from my department.

Really excited with how that went and how it turned out. As part of that, one of the things that I did

was I made a video called Kobe Finds Away. Check it out on YouTube if you get a chance.

And one of the things, as you guys know, my irritation with Celtics media and whatnot,

a lot of it is born from the narrative in 2010 of that game seven, where Kobe shoots

six for 24 and the Lakers win, but that is the overriding takeaways.

The Lakers won in spite of Kobe.

And yes, he was really bad for several different parts of that game.

But to me, that's the setup for the culmination of the story, which is 28 points they score in the last nine minutes

of an absolute rock fight of a game.

It's 83 to 79 is the final score.

So scoring 28 points, that was only the second 30 point quarter of the whole series.

And Kobe was at the center of a lot of it.

And so part of the story to me from that is that he tapped into other parts

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