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 today we're going to start at least with that dumb-ass ESPN article from yesterday.

That article was weak old fish reheated in the microwave. It read like it was supposed to come out two months ago, barely had any new info in it with some shit about LeBron that is mostly what I want to focus on, but I kind of want to take it in a more specific direction. But before we get to that part, I want to touch on a couple of things first. It starts out with a text from Jesse Bus's phone, from Joe McCormick, who's the Lakers CFO, which is basically how

he found out he was going to get fired, was, hey, we need to talk, and then that was how Jesse

found out that him and Joey and Janie were being let go. Then a couple of paragraphs later,

Dee, has the audacity to say, Jesse, Janie, and Joey declined a comment for this piece

or something to that effect,

which I know the intent is to say they did not want to be quoted on the record.

The piece started with a text message from Jesse Bus's phone.

You can't go saying that, oh, they declined to comment on this.

In fact, the whole thing, the only people that have that kind of smoke for Jeannie Bus

are her siblings. So I read the whole thing, and I want to start with this, as basically

these are our grievances about how things went down. We want to air shit out. We want to say some

shit that we heard behind closed doors about, oh, Jenny's mad at LeBron about this or he's not

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