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What do you think about the Laker team now?

Do you follow the box cards 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 last week we did a pod titled Potential Pitfalls, where the premise of the pod was, if the Laker season were to go sideways, what would that look like? What are some of the likeliest ways that that could happen? Today's pod is flipping that on its head a bit of

what would a championship season look like for the Lakers this year? And just like that pitfalls

pod, I didn't want that to be an exercise in paranoia. I don't want this to be an exercise in

delusion and puppy dogs and rainbows and all of that. I want to come away from this conversation

with some objective measures of what we think sort of the checkpoints on the way to a title

season would look like. And so I'll start on that front, D. Almost all of the recent and really

throughout NBA history, NBA champions have been one of the best teams

in the regular season, if not the best overall, a lot of times far and away the best in

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