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Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers

How Good a General Manager Is Rob Pelinka? Has He Fully Rehabbed His Image (Guest: Harrison Faigen)

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

So how good a GM is Rob Pelinka? There are very few questions you could ask of Lakers fans, and Lakers media, over the last few years and receive a wider variety of answers, depending on the date. The swings here are massive. On the one hand, he's won a title! On the other, he completely destroyed a season-and-a-half with the Russell Westbrook trade, and made a bunch of other technical errors that have cost the Lakers over the last few years. But then again, the man completely rescued the team from the h-e-double hockey sticks in which he put it at the trade deadline, reforming the roster and forming a group that reached the Western Conference Finals. This summer, he did good work maintaining the roster and adding a little more balance. There was no big swing for a shiny object, no upheaval to try and add another star. On the other hand... there really weren't any stars to go get. Not without jumping through so many hoops and performing so many surgeries on the roster that the result simply wouldn't have been viable. Nobody, save perhaps Kyrie Irving, thought this was a good idea, and therefore it wasn't seriously entertained. So is Rob Pelinka a good GM? That's the question put to Harrison Faigen of SB Nation (and the head honcho at Silver Screen and Roll). Plus, we talk about snacks and Anthony Davis, and where the Lakers fit in with other teams in the Western Conference. Behind the Nuggets, sure, but then what? HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky (Guest, Harrison Faigen) SEGMENT 1: Is Rob Pelinka a good GM? SEGMENT 2: Rob gets credit for this summer, but how much confidence should it give fans? SEGMENT 3: Snacks and standings (predictions)! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Birddogs Go to birddogs.com/LOCKEDONNBA or enter promo code LOCKEDONNBA for a free white tech hat with any purchase. You won’t want to take your birddogs off we promise you. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Right now, when you bet on a Super Bowl Winner, you can GET BONUS BETS EVERY TIME THEY WIN IN THE REGULAR SEASON! FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:08.1

Hey, everyone.

0:11.5

Welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Wednesday, Brian Keminetski, joined by special guest Fagan,

0:16.5

that Harrison Fagan.

0:17.5

I don't know who he is, but we're going to talk about Rob Polinka and whether or not

0:21.6

he's completely rehabbed his image, not just in Lakerland, but league wide.

0:25.4

That's next.

0:28.6

You are Lockdown Lakers, your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast

0:37.1

Network, your team every day.

0:42.1

Thanks to everybody for making Lockdown Lakers first listen of every day Monday through Friday,

0:51.0

sometimes on weekends if there's a news dump or a big game or something like that, always

0:55.5

going to be free, though, no matter what day of the week, never behind a paywall, Lockdown

0:59.0

Lakers on YouTube is where you can go to see the show, hang out with over 20,000 subscribers,

1:04.2

people reacting to the first couple of shows of the week with Aaron Larsoul, and they

1:08.4

will soon be reacting to what I can only describe as what's certainly going to be an even

1:13.2

better show with Harrison Fagan, who you all know him, he is, I'm reading from your,

1:20.8

I should have had, this is like really bad podcast hosting, I should have asked you,

1:24.5

like, hey, we were just talking about wasted time on podcasts, like, what do you want

1:28.8

me to, like, call you, but, you know, he's, he's with, it with espionation, you're a manager.

1:35.1

Yeah, I think, I think grand czar of espionation NBA is probably like, I mean, that's the preferred

1:40.5

term, they won't let me put it on my business cards, but I'm working on it.

1:43.8

Still, dabbles in silver screen and role, which is where we get most of our material.

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