Hello Lakers nation. Happy Friday. Welcome in to Lakers nation live. We're going to kick off the weekend talking a little bit of Lakers basketball. We're going to talk about areas of improvement for the team. Where do they need to get better and are there some guys that are going to get a different role this coming season that could change that and maybe some improved health as well.

We'll talk a bit about that.

We'll talk about the COB&G statute, the unveiling.

We'll talk about that too.

Joining me today, we've got my guy Ron Gunnovan.

Ron, how you doing?

It's doing great. How are you?

Doing well.

Doing well.

You know you were, I could see you behind the scenes there.

You were rocking out to the intro music before we came on.

It's really good.

People were saying in the comments, I agree, it's great.

It was, it was, it was, it was catching rod.

He was, he was digging those weekend vibes.

Rod, I think before we get into the,

before we get into like the analysis of what's going on with the team what needs to happen and all of that we should take a moment and note that the

Kobe and G. G. statue it's hit the interwebs

This is what it's going to look like or what it does look like.

What are your thoughts on the statue? Obviously at this point we've seen it.

What do you think about this statue? Yeah, I think I mean this is this is great. I think

you know the plan to do three statues for for Kobe I think one of them was always going to be like, one was always going to be a shout out to

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