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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to be talking about Kent Baysmore. Lakers signed him to a vet minimum deal, a one-year deal. This is his second tour of duty with the Lakers. He was

involved in the Steve Blake trade. We traded good old Steve Blake back in 2014 when it was clear

that we were not on a playoff run. And in return, we got Marshawn Brooks and Kent Baysmore.

And Baysmore at the time was a fringe NBA player, right? He's an end of the bench guy for Golden State.

But in playing in that end of the season on a bad team where it's kind of garbage time to end the season,

Bazmore showed quite a bit at the end of that 2013-14 season, a great deal of versatility.

And I remember liking him. He played 23 games for us. And I liked his tenure, but we didn't end up offering him a contract so that we could pursue one Carmelo Anthony over that free agency. Again, it's funny how these things all end up tying together. Ended up signing with Atlanta and played there for a few years under Mike Boodenholzer. But over the last four seasons, he's played for five different teams the lakers will be his fifth

team you got Atlanta Portland Sacramento and then last season in golden state and while that

makes him kind of the definition of a journeyman and my expectations were low on him going into

watching tape i've actually been pleasantly surprised by what I've seen.

And Darius, what stands out to me the most is that he's okay at a wide variety of things,

right? He can he can dribble a little bit. He's got some passing feel. He can defend on the ball

and off of it. He can make open threes, runs the floor actually pretty well. That's one of my favorite

parts of his game. But there's just a lot of different things where in none of those, it's not

like a Wayne Ellington where he's in the top, say, 20th percentile of his type of player at one

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