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. And, D, we made it. We made it to the All-Star break. It's both the halfway point of the season and almost exactly two-thirds. For some reason, that makes sense to me. It's the main dividing line

during the NBA season, and Lakers make it to the All-Star break with a win over Dallas.

LeBron becomes the oldest player in NBA history to notch a triple double. And that's where I want

to start, D, is over the last week, there have been two things that have raised my level of

optimism a little bit.

One was the addition of Knard and just sort of how he's looked.

And that continued in last night's game.

I think he's a really valuable weapon for this team.

We'll talk about him a little bit later.

But the biggest one was LeBron last night and how he looked athletically.

Playing a bad Dallas team that was on a

prolonged losing streak, it's not about the result of the game. It was about how he moved,

how sustainably throughout 48 minutes, which to me is the biggest question that I have about

LeBron at this point. We've seen his turnups can be very effective and he's still a monster

of a player when he does. It's just more of a question of how often can he do that? And I know it can't

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