Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live podcast.

I'm Trevor Lane and boy, did we get a surprise today.

The Lakers sold the bus family no longer.

The majority owners instead, Mark Walter, who has a big stake, the primary stake in the Dodgers,

now controlling the Los Angeles Lakers. We're going to talk about what this means. Plus, we've got the draft coming up just a week away. We've got free agency. We've got the trade market, all kinds of things going on in the world of the Los Angeles Lakers. Happy to see you all here. If you're coming in from X, from Facebook, from YouTube, wherever you're coming in from. Happy to see you here. We're going to be taking your questions and comments. Joining me tonight we've got from Dodger Blue, Anthony with Toronto, Anthony. Welcome on. How you doing? Thanks for having me, Trev. I like the liking the jersey there. I said, you know what? what we've got we've got now the blend we've got

ownership control and the dodgers control the lakers we've got to break the two together and

we got to rock the the black mamba uh dodger jersey here tonight so i'm excited for this

and today boy i'll tell you what this was not luka level shock and surprise in terms of that that trade but

but not that far off i was completely caught off guard by this what did you think when the news

first broke that uh mark walter was going to be taken over the primary share of the Los Angeles Lakers from the bus family.

Yeah.

I should say, too, I got a little Kobe stuff hanging out too.

I got the Dodger Mombas.

I like it.

We're both doing the hybrid crossover here.

You're ready.

You're ready for it.

You know what?

I was stunned.

It wasn't Luca stunned, like you said.

But for as much as something like this could have come out of nowhere, I think it did. Because Mark and his group had already sort of had a stake in the Lakers. And so you always sort of figure that that could be a natural

transition. And the people that he brought it, that he bought that steak from had sort of a

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