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2020 NBA Championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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And Trevor Lane here for LakersNation.com.

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Lakers today, we've got a special guest joining us to talk here for Lakers Nation.com. You're home for everything. Lakers today.

We've got a special guest joining us to talk a little Lakers basketball. Mark Medina from USA Today. Mark, how are you doing, man? Trevor, I am good. It's crazy how another NBA season's just around the corner, but here we are. It really is. And you know what? It's felt like it's kind of taken forever

for a lot of fans out there. But at the same time, it's gone by pretty quick too. It's been another short offseason. But as we were talking before we came on here, at least it was long enough for us to get a little bit of a break, a little bit of a recharge, and now we can fully dive back into basketball.

Yeah, and I'm sure that the Lakers are going to feel that as well.

I mean, as you'm sure that the Lakers are going to feel that as well.

I mean, as you know, when the Lakers won the 2020 NBA championship in the bubble,

71 days later is when training camp started.

And that was a very short turnaround.

Guys weren't really able to get rested, weren't able to clear their heads.

It's challenging enough that there was still a pandemic going on.

And here, while the Lakers obviously were not happy with the fact that they lost in the first

round of the Phoenix Suns, they thought that they could defend their NBA championship.

There is an unintended silver lining about the fact that, you know, LeBron James and Anthony Davis, most in particular,

have a chance to rejuvenate their bodies and minds and get after it with their offseason regimen.

And that's something that those guys and the rest of the,

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