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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And today, the Lakers play one of the strangest preseason games, I can remember. A road game in Milwaukee, much to the chagrin of LeBron James, who effectively tweeted yesterday, who the hell's idea was

this? Not verbatim, but that's basically what he said. Apparently, the Lakers preseason scheduling

is handled in-house. Bobby Marks had a tweet about this where basically your own team

schedules it. Apparently, the Lakers and the Bucks scheduled a home and home in preseason. The Bucks

visited us last preseason. Our turn to go to Milwaukee for a night. So, Dee, kind of an odd

circumstance for a preseason game. But what are your thoughts on what, and what are you looking

for tonight? Yeah, so LeBron wasn't the only one to irked. J.J. Redick was as well in his media

scrum, I believe it was yesterday. He said, not an ideal

preseason for us. And in a way, it's not. They're on the road the entire time. And it's like

they're the Harlem Globetrotters visiting city to city and giving local fans a chance to see

the Los Angeles Lakers. Like, I get it. Palm Springs is not far away, but still, they're not able to, like, have a normal at home routine for any of these games. And getting on a flight to the middle of the country, it's like they're campaigning or something, right? They're going to a battleground state in Wisconsin. The good part about it is the

games are all spaced. Lakers played like over the weekend. This game's on Thursday. Their next game

isn't until Tuesday. And so they're getting time in between these games. But yeah, I would prefer

like I'm sure the head coach and the best players and all the players probably would prefer they not be

traveling this much. Regarding the game, I'm interested just to see like who plays and what the

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