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 part 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And this weekend, our Lakers made it nine straight with the fourth game winner of the season, Luke Kinnard, on a very rare baseline out of bounds play. You don't get that a lot for a game winner.

Cash is in a three off of a great read by Marcus Smart.

To extend the Lakers winning streak to nine games, the last three games in particular,

most of the time when we do this, we go into a lot of the details of the most recent game.

And we'll do that a little bit, but we got a game at 4 o'clock Pacific against Detroit coming up tonight.

And I kind of wanted to zoom out a little bit in just a, this is the funnest stretch of

Lakers basketball in years.

And these last three wins in particular, there's a level of resilience to each of them

that I've just been so impressed by.

The second Houston game,

that's an in-conference rival in their gym, it's very difficult to beat the same team twice in their gym when there are stakes involved. And so that second win against Houston, I was like,

that's a good-ass win. I thought we were going to win the first one, but the second one,

I was like, damn, that's a really good win.

Then they drag their asses to Miami the next day and do what they did.

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