Lakers Lose AD
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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šļø 20 December 2021
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Summary
In only the span of a few days, the Lakers have lost Anthony Davis for at least a month to a knee injury, had several players go into the NBA's health and safety protocols, signed Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day contract via a hardship exception, and had Trevor Ariza return to the lineup in his first action of the season after ankle surgery in September. Pete and Darius discuss all this news, including their initialĀ impressions of Thomas and Ariza, as well as how losing AD changes the asks on LeBron and how much more or less taxing it is for him to play more minutes as a "big" with the team going to moreĀ center-less lineups.Ā
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| 0:00.0 | Tickpick should be your first choice to buy basketball tickets because they save fans money by never charging any service fees ever. |
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| 0:12.3 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:15.9 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:18.2 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:19.5 | You're kidding. |
| 0:22.0 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:29.3 | 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. |
| 0:32.6 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. |
| 0:35.6 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Mike is getting some much-needed rest on his first day back from just a crazy road trip. Since we recorded last, Anthony Davis got hurt, and that's the big news over the course of this week. He'll be re-evaluated in four |
| 0:54.9 | weeks with the knee injury. Thankfully, it was not something worse than it was. Several other Lakers |
| 1:00.6 | went into health and safety protocols. A couple of them went in and out. Russell Westbrook had |
| 1:06.5 | an adventure on Friday night, and Malik Monk thought he was back and then is not back. |
| 1:13.7 | And so now before we get into the like Lakers and, you know, the whole the whole topic of |
| 1:20.1 | the pod in general, I think that something before that needs to be addressed to, which is |
| 1:23.8 | that the NBA is not a functional sports league right now. |
| 1:28.1 | And that talking about it in a way that analyzes the Lakers or analyzes the league, |
| 1:33.6 | like we have a prospective matchup on Christmas, really the marquey day of the at least early NBA television schedule against a Lakers team and a Brooklyn team that may just really be, |
| 1:45.5 | you know, a shell of what they are supposed to be. So I have a hard time like getting |
| 1:51.2 | too worked up about anything. I think there are some things that can be learned. There's always, |
| 1:55.7 | even in moments like these and circumstances like these, there's always progress to be made |
| 2:00.6 | and things to be made and things |
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