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Lakers Nation Podcast

Lakers Defeat Rockets With LeBron James Starting At Center

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Lakers got a much-needed win over the Rockets and did it with an unconventional lineup, starting LeBron James at center. We break down the new look, the play of Stanley Johnson, THT’s struggles, and much more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Mommy on top of it.

0:05.0

The win.

0:06.3

Oh, it's got.

0:07.2

2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

0:11.1

Mommy, dog, love, love, love, love.

0:14.6

Hello.

0:25.0

Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com. You're home for everything. Lakers. This is the Lakersnation.com live postgame show.

0:29.5

Your Lakers picked up. What's that called? A win. Something that they hadn't had in five games.

0:34.9

Win 132 to 123 high scoring game against the Houston Rockets. We're going to break it all down. So if you're coming in live, you're joining us from YouTube, from Facebook, from Twitter. Welcome in. If you're listening to the podcast version of this after the fact over on Spotify, Apple Podcast, wherever, make sure you do follow us there as well. me tonight sean davis sean how are you doing man

0:55.9

doing all right doing a lot better because yeah i mean i almost got not used to winning i mean

1:00.8

that that felt good um but yeah i'm doing awesome thanks for having me on again yeah it certainly feels

1:06.7

good after and i know people will say it's just the rockets and absolutely right you have to add that

1:11.8

end any kind of analysis it's not like you look at this game and say up everything is just fine in

1:16.8

laker land no no I mean they they won it was against the houston rockets the rockets are a bad

1:22.1

team so it doesn't mean everything's just fine but it was a win and after five losses in a row, it was important that they

1:29.0

come out here, they get this done, and they snap the losing streak. And I thought, off the top,

1:33.6

the big story from tonight, LeBron, the first time in his career, starts at center and gets a

1:40.1

triple double. In fact, Russell Westbrook got a triple double as well. We'll talk about him in just a

1:43.7

minute. But LeBron James, first timebrook got a triple double as well. We'll talk about him in just a minute.

1:50.2

But LeBron James, first time ever in 19 years starts at center, 32 points, 11 boards, 11 assists,

1:56.9

two blocks, 11 of 19 shooting, 3 of 5 from 3 in 39 minutes. He is ridiculously good.

2:02.6

Sean, what did you think about the new look Lakers, the new lineup with LeBron playing the center position? Yeah, offensively, there's just a lot more spacing. They made a lot of really good stuff out of LeBron playing at the elbow, which freed up shots for Malik Monk, Carmelo Anthony.

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