I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy!

Oh God!

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Cool, that was close.

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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 the Lakers have finished the 2025-26 regular season with 53 wins.

D, prior to the season, I was like, you know, I think this is about a 55-ish win team if they have some good luck.

Turns out they're a 53 win team without good

help luck at all. Kudos to the Lakers for a successful season. Certainly had its ups and downs D,

but in today's pod, want to reflect on that. We lock up the fourth seed. We know we're playing

the Houston Rockets. We're going to dive deep into that series into what the Lakers need to do to try to win that. But for today, I want to look back

and just on a crazy regular season that just had so many different twists and turns, just got

done listening to JJ Redick talking in the postgame presser and just kind of reminiscing on

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