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 of our 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. All right. What's up, guys? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. Pete is out on

vacation and Darius. I was out last night. I fell asleep late, but then one of my sons climbed

in bed. This doesn't happen a lot actually for us, but climbed in bed at around 2.30.

So by the time I actually got him back to sleep, I was actually dead out around 4.30, which

then allowed me to awake to like 87 text messages about the Woj bomb that happened in the middle of the night.

And it's right here.

And everyone has seen it by now breaking. The Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Connecticut Stan Hurley middle of the night. And it's right here, and everyone has seen it by now breaking.

The Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Connecticut Stan Hurley to become the franchise's

next coach and are preparing a massive long-term contract offer to bring the back-to-back

national champion to the NBA, sources tell ESPN.

And amongst many things that we're going to get into today, Darius, is just the interesting

nature of the reporting of this,

which you had other reporters, including yesterday and in the weeks leading up,

saying that it was very strongly tilted in another direction towards JJ Reddick.

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