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 it's funny to have such a peaceful offseason, D.

So striking that even with guys like Damian Lillard and James Harden out there,

the Lakers are not involved

in any rumors or anything like that. It's been peaceful waters, which is such a different place to

be than we've been in quite a long time. And one of the things we were just talking about off-air

that we decided to carry onto it is this is a deep team. And the depth of the team, I think,

gives Darwin a degree of optionality that he didn't have at the depth of the team I think gives Darwin a degree of

optionality that he didn't have at the beginning of last year and sometimes having more

choices isn't always the best thing now it's better to have more choices than to have your

hand force for sure but I think we're going to learn about a lot about Darwin's proclivities

and what he'd like to do now that he

has more options at hand. And these are good problems, certainly. But I think they're worth

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