Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live podcast.

I'm Trevor Lane and joining me today on the show.

Well, Studio, it looks like he's about ready to get out of here, though, but also joining.

It's going to be editor extraordinaire, Daniel, how you doing?

I'm doing well.

We got the Luka Extension news over the weekend, so it feels like all the big stuff is out of the way this off season.

Yeah, I mean, next up, we'll get the, it'll be the schedule release, which is sometime around mid-August, typically. We see that happen.

We also have, and usually a few days before that, we'll get like the Christmas Day game. We'll get that sort of stuff that's going to come out. The openers will usually come out and then we'll get the full schedule release. And then, of course, we'll have Eurobasket at the end of this month. Actually, I think Luca plays pretty soon. They've got some tune-up games. So I think he's playing in like a week or so. So we'll keep an eye on that. Then, of course, we've got Media Day training camp, all of that coming up at the end of September. But tonight we're going to talk, well, first of all, we are going to take questions and comments and everybody joining us live. Welcome in, those of you who are live here coming in from YouTube, from Facebook, from X, happy to have you all here with us. but we're also going to be talking a little bit about LeBron and where things kind of go from

here and what LeBron is looking for with this team.

So we'll dive in.

If you have questions, comments, fire them off in the chat and we will get into them.

But let's start with this.

We've got, according to Dave McMedman, this was from Dave on ESPN today, said,

I'm told that the statement Rich Paul gave to Shams Tarania back in June when LeBron

LeBron opted in still stands, that LeBron and his representatives will be monitoring the Lakers

moves that they make because they recognize that there's only a very limited amount of time

left in his career and he wants to be competing for championships, whatever time that is.

Daniel, how do you take that?

How do you react to LeBron is keep you a close eye on everything the Lakers do because he

wants to win championships?

It's kind of what we've been here in all offseason and they could keep monitoring,

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