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 part 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 the Lakers find themselves at an interesting crossroads that I think will really give us clarity

on what direction they want to go in going forward. Several things I want to talk to you

about, Dee, but got a bit of news today as well as Jackson Hayes resigns to a one-year deal.

Dee, what's your reaction to that to start out? So I'm not surprised. This had been floated very recently

in the, hey, don't be surprised if there's a Jackson Hayes Lakers reunion.

And I think that's particularly the case after they signed Aiton. I'm actually more interested

to see if they still try to sign another big man. So Jemison is still on a two-way, but

obviously there's a limited number of games that Jemison could play. So I'm just

wondering if they are going to bring someone in to compete with Jackson as the primary backup,

or if Jackson wins that job by default. Another Bill Duffy client here, Pete, And so that's the new one now. Very interesting

in that regard. I don't think Jackson had a market around the league, really. And if he could be

brought back on a minimum and sort of do a backup's job, I think he's mostly fine at that. I think that

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