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.

What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike.

And as we continue our discussions on the Lakers roster and building the roster for next season,

today I wanted to talk about building a roster for the 82 game regular season versus building

it for the playoffs and sort of the what are the differences between the two on this Lakers

team D and what the Lakers need to do to sort of check both boxes. So just simply presenting

that topic to you, Dee, what are sort of the first things that come to mind in terms of

getting through an 82 game season? Well, it's interesting because I think a lot of this

conversation centers around LeBron and AD towards the end of the regular season and even throughout

the regular season, I think it was fair to question on a night-to-night basis.

What exactly from an effort and energy and just sort of like little things perspective,

how much of that AD and LeBron and especially LeBron were going to be able to give on a night-to-night

basis. And I think that when you give on a night-to-night basis.

And I think that when you think about an 82-game regular season and playing every other night

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