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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blueire

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we were initially going to do a pod on

the MVP race. And we'll be getting to that in a pod soon. But as the Lakers season winds down, we're recording this.

And there's a good chance that 24 hours from now, the Lakers will be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs,

thusly ending just a disastrous season.

And whenever there is even just a bad or a season that underperforms by Lakers standards

or relative to expectations, this is far from the first one that's done that in Lakers

history.

The resulting off season is always just people lose their minds, right?

It's always very dramatic.

We had magic going on the talk show circuit

the other day. There's going to be all sorts of articles. If you've been a Laker fan for any length

of time, you know that there's a certain way that this thing goes. And the most recent time that

happened was after LeBron's first season, Magic quit on live TV, basically, in front of

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