Hello and welcome to the game theory offseason preview series.

Bryce, it is that time where we dig deep into every team's forthcoming NBA offseason

and discuss what their biggest decisions are, what the NBA draft will look like, all that

and more.

And we're starting with the Los Angeles Lakers. I couldn't be more excited to dig

into a team that maybe has more going on than anybody else in the NBA off season this year.

Yeah. I mean, I did my prep work for this. And one of my big things was, I think it was important to note on not every single

one but on a lot of them whenever we're talking about free agency and things like that

was the names but also the teams that will have cap space like who are players in the market

and then how does that affect the market how could that affect know, Team X and their player X free agent?

Like who might actually be intrigued to signing him and the Lakers are one of those teams that

kind of fit both sides of that, Sam, where they have maybe the two biggest names on the market

as unrestricted free agents and they are also a team that will

have cap space that could potentially be going after players from other teams. So I think it is a

pretty good place to start with our first of 30 of these. As always, with these offseason previews,

our wonderful producer, Andrew Claudio, has set us up with a great graphic for you to follow along here.

We will intermittently put this graphic up on the screen.

We have guys under contract.

We have free agents here.

We have what their general financial picture looks like.

All of that and more. Okay.

The numbers here I can tell on the financial picture are a little bit off, but we'll talk

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