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Lakers Nation Podcast

Lakers Defeat Rockets, Raise 17th Championship

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

LeBron James didn't return to the court, but the Lakers did raise their 17th championship banner to the Staples Center rafters and picked up a win over the Rockets. What does this mean for the Lakers' playoff seeding and what comes next in the standings?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, it's for me.

0:04.2

Game is 4-3 in the win.

0:06.0

Oh, it's got it.

0:06.5

2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:12.4

Donkey, donkey, zombie, zombie, zombie, zombie.

0:16.5

Hello, Lakers nation.

0:17.8

Welcome in. Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com.

0:20.6

You're home for everything. Lakers. This is the Lakers Nation live postgame show slash podcast. If you're listening to us over on Apple Podcasts, welcome. And everybody coming in from YouTube, Facebook, and Periscope. We'll be taking your questions and comments. The Lakers did just get the win over the Houston Rockets, the worst team in the NBA. But a win is a win.

0:40.0

No Anthony Davis, no LeBron James, no Dennis Schroeder, no Alex Caruso. And somehow,

0:46.4

the Lakers got that job done again. The Rockets are a very bad team. But it wasn't without some

0:51.4

drama. The Lakers needed a little bit of some heroics from Kyle Kuzma to finish things off down the stretch in order to get the W. Joining me tonight is Matt Peralta, who I'm sure is a little bit excited because West Matthews made the defensive stop to seal the game. Yeah, if it wasn't for the West Matthews stop, man, I would have been way more annoyed about this game.

1:11.6

But we got the win and I guess that's what matters.

1:14.4

But I actually tweeted this out during the game.

1:17.0

I said that I've never been so annoyed with the team like the Lakers that dominates the paint like they did tonight.

1:23.7

And it still was this close.

1:25.8

So I guess beggars can't be choosers given where things are right now,

1:30.1

but a win's a win.

1:31.9

Yeah, I mean, look, this was, they set a record today.

1:34.7

This was the game where they scored more points in the paint than at any point in

1:38.9

Lakers history.

1:39.5

I think they finished with, what was it, 86?

1:42.1

I got to look at the stats here.

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