Lakers Get Ready for Second Half Sprint
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After a week-long hiatus from the All-Star break, the Lakers are back in action on Friday night against the Clippers. Pete and Darius discuss the team’s return, how having a fully healthy roster can set them up for the rest of the year, why having all three of their star players healthy should impact the team’s defensive commitment, where the team can still improve offensively, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show |
| 0:15.5 | because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.8 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:28.3 | And a single tear dripped down my cheek as I saw the injury report with absolutely no one on it as we start the second half. |
| 0:39.1 | The Lakers are back tonight, Dee, |
| 0:44.4 | with the game against the Clippers. And we're going to talk about all that and kind of reorient ourselves to the season, but kind of had an impromptu two and a half show front office detour |
| 0:50.9 | with all of the news yesterday. Lon Rosen gets hired as the president of |
| 0:55.6 | business operations. Lon Rosen, a name that I have known my entire life as a Laker fan, D, you as well. |
| 1:02.6 | And it's funny, I hadn't thought of the name, but it makes perfect sense. Like there's so much |
| 1:08.0 | overlap. He's been in this job for the Dodgers. I don't have a ton of |
| 1:11.6 | insight on what it means. Like, I knew what that job meant when it was Tim Harris in that role, and I |
| 1:17.6 | had opinions on that. But I don't even know what their vision for what a president of business |
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