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 bar 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 today is going to be our third and final trade pod post-DFS trade, or at least in this little

sequence. Maybe we do it one more right before the deadline. But two pods ago, we covered

the Lakers strategic direction. In yesterday's pod, we talked a little bit about the value of

Ruin Gabe and kind of our appetite for trading those bigger contracts and them as players

and how we should value them against kind of available players. And then toward the end,

we got more into the specifics of the backup five spot and all of the backup five's available.

But, Dee, we got a couple of bits of news yesterday.

It got tweeted out as we were recording.

First, we got some news that LeBron and AD are a little concerned and, you know,

putting a little public pressure on the front office to

make a move and expend some draft capital. Got some details from their perspective on that,

or at least from Shams. And then Jared Vanderbilt cleared to return on Saturday.

Redick's language was like, yeah, he's going to be available, but might not play was interesting.

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