Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

The Lakers season has never felt closer.

JJ Reddick, Rob Polanka just met with the media.

They had a lot to say.

We're going to dig into all of the particulars.

Joining me is Editor Extraordinary Daniel Stark.

And Daniel, you were at the press conference.

You were there. Let's start with that. Did it feel you were at the press conference. You were there.

Let's start with that.

Did it feel like?

Okay, the seasons here were back?

I would say it did just because, you know, we're back in the gym talking, asking all the

questions you would expect to ask, you know, around this time of year.

But I would say like there weren't any necessarily big surprises. Like, I think it kind of went about as we expected it to go. Like, you know, when you didn't make a lot of moves or if you didn't make any moves in the offseason, there's not a whole lot to discuss there. And so it was kind of kind of a little boring. but I do think, honestly, I thought JJ, you know, had a lot of good stuff to say. I thought it was a really good presser for him. So I guess, you know, it gave me a little more confidence that, hey, this, this might actually be the right man for this job. Okay. So I do want to talk a lot about JJ, what JJ had to say.

He had a lot of different things that he got into that I thought were interesting.

But when you say there were no surprises, so I disagree.

I thought there was one bombshell surprise near the beginning of the press conference.

And that was, oh, hey, by the way, Jared Vanderbilt had two surgeries.

Like that, that to me, I don don't know what was the reaction like in the room because I we did a live stream where we were

showing the the feed and everything I think my jaw literally dropped when when Rob mentioned that I

was in total shock what was the reaction like in the room to that Vanderbilt news yeah yes I should clarify myself that that was in total shock. What was the reaction like in the room to that Vanderbilt news?

Yeah, yes, I should clarify myself that. That was definitely surprising to hear that. But we knew

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