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.

This was initially going to be a discussion about Austin's return, but it looks like Austin is not

going to return tonight against Cleveland, but soon, maybe on Friday. So this is going to be a trade deadline

pod. We've got a little bit of morsels out in the rumor mill D from different reports. We had a

report this morning from Brad Turner of the LA Times that some of the NBA folks he's spoken to have

said that the Lakers are interested in Najee Marshall, DeAndre Hunter, Dante D'Evinchenzo,

and Keon Ellis, with Herb Jones and Trey Murphy being guys they're also interested in, but the

price for them is beyond what the Lakers really even have to trade. They only have one tradable

first right now in expirings in a lot of ways. You've got Mark Stein reporting that the Lakers

aren't particularly interested in just trading Rui, right? It would have to be a significant

upgrade for the Lakers to be willing to trade him. You've got Jake Fisher reporting that D'Andre

Aiton is not viewed as the center of the future for the Lakers. Is there any reports that I'm

missing out, D?

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