What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding. That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show

because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And yesterday we got an update on Jared Vanderbilt D. And then a little bit later, we're going to talk about the game tonight against Orlando, against a very good team who just had their winning streak snapped last night against the Clippers.

Should be a very good game and the first good team the Lakers have played in a little bit.

But first, Jared Vanderbilt has been two weeks away from being two weeks away for about

nine months now.

And so, Dee, talk to me. What do we know? Yeah, so he apparently

continues to progress in his rehab. He has not had any setbacks. A couple of different tweets were

worded a little bit differently, but needless to say, it's taking a bit longer than anticipated for his recovery.

He's going to be evaluated again in a couple of weeks. And so two weeks away from two weeks

away is about right. Yesterday, I was on social media, and I just decided to dig through

the timeline of what's been going on with Jared Vanderbilt.

Obviously, he got hurt last February in that fantastic win against Boston.

It was near the, I think, end of the first half.

A few minutes left in the first quarter.

And he loose ball, sprinted after it, and then basically

came up hobbling, sort of limped off the court, and that was that. There was even uncertainty

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