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 Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And we're going to do a couple of mailbag episodes over the next couple of days.

So let's get right to it, Dee.

First question was asked by enough people to where just a general one is, it's funny,

the number one question I've gotten is like, so what can you say now that you couldn't say

before? Before I chime in, Dee, what was the experience like? Let's talk about that for a little

bit. This was a very strange place for me to be in personally of like working for the team, but also

feeling a great obligation to talk to the fans.

And so, of course, there was a degree of watered down and got a tiptoe around certain things.

So what was that experience for you?

Like most things in life and most relationships in life, there are like a public

version of things and a private version of things. It's like family business. Your father might tell

you or your uncle might say something to you. And it's just like, this stays in this room because

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