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 Mike. And we got an early one. We're just talking about it. We got the Dallas Mavericks at 530 Pacific time, two hours earlier than normal tonight. So everyone adjust your schedules accordingly. But in today's

pod, we're going to zoom out and get a look at the lay of the land in the Western Conference.

And Mike, it's a pretty jam-packed West. Lakers stand at the 10th seed right now, nine games back

of first place, but four games out of the number five seed. And so when you look at

this crazy Western conference, Mike, what do you see? Well, first, Pete, I feel like a kid whose dad

just let him have a donut for breakfast and then, you know, like a Mountain Dew with lunch and

some ice cream after dinner, all the desserts that I want. You're letting me go through the Western

conference today. I'm very excited to look at the schedule here. Yes, yes the desserts that I want. You're letting me go through the Western Conference today.

I'm very excited to look at the schedule here.

Yes, yes.

It's kind of broken down into tiers already.

And I think the Lakers are in the wrong one in terms of what their ultimate upside slash

playoff potential is.

And like so the distinction points are the top four, which is Minnesota,

OKC, Denver, and the Clippers. And they, the Clippers and the Nuggets have 14 losses apiece.

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