It's the Lockdown Podcast Lakers podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I'm joined by Pete's A.S. Pete I have one

hugely important question to ask you right now are you ready?

Yeah, what's that? You ready for some playoff out basketball? Oh man.

So cool.

Congratulations Anthony, you've been doing this since 2013?

Yeah, I was like the back end of the 2012 season,

which I'm not counting that year

because I didn't start the year and then those playoffs were a farce because it was

right after Kobe Tours Achilles sure but yeah yeah it's been it's been a run It's been a run. It's been a ride. Yeah, this has been I mean because even like you said with that season going into the playoffs it was like

Deflating you know what I mean? Yeah, we you know, we knew we weren going to have Kobe we didn't do

was the spurs to make it worse it's like everybody was using that as some

grand statement that it's the spurs and and the Lakers for for committing the

heinous crime of trying to acquire Dwight Howard and Steve Nash and have a great lineup of potential lineup of Steve Nash, Kobe, Meta, Powell, and Dwight, that it was some like awful thing to try to like really go out there and commit to winning a championship.

And meanwhile the Spurs have just kind of trotted along in mediocrity and that is seen as an accomplishment

in a league where half the teams make the playoffs anyway. I'm not better. No, I'm not better at

all. Yeah man,'m not better at all.

Yeah, man. So this is your first, like, first one where it's joyful going into it.

And I mean, Lord knows, this one's also very strange.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that we haven't

had any COVID scares or anything like that? Knock on wood, right? Every time we say that,

but despite Lou Williams best efforts.

Props to the NBA for putting us in a position where all we're doing is talking

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