End of the Ride
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
The Lakers battled valiantly and fought to the bitter end, but their season was ended by the Denver Nuggets in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the game and reflect on the series in general, hitting on Jokic and the Nuggets great showing, LeBron's huge performance in Game 4, and much more. Then later, the guys discuss Darvin Ham's first playoff run and begin to think about some of the questions facing this group heading into the offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.3 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.6 | Lakers go out on their shields, but get swept nonetheless, |
| 0:27.8 | and the Denver Nuggets advance to the NBA finals in four games |
| 0:31.9 | with a little hint of potential LeBron James retirement at the end. |
| 0:36.4 | No good novella ends the season without a bombshell |
| 0:40.5 | you didn't see coming. You're listening to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to you by the Blueire |
| 0:44.7 | Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And guys, I'm not going to try to digest this |
| 0:50.1 | crazy season all in one night. But here we are at the end of the ride. |
| 0:56.3 | Mike, I'd love to start with you and just kind of hear what the mood was around the |
| 1:00.5 | team, where you're at, and just the key players on the last night of the season. |
| 1:05.6 | Wow. |
| 1:06.2 | You don't usually see a series go the way that this one did where where the teams kind of came |
| 1:12.7 | together for a matchup that I think was going to be exciting for a couple of different reasons |
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