LeBron Rests
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
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Summary
Are the Lakers load managing LeBron James? Pete and Darius react to the report that LeBron is likely to sit out Friday's game vs. the Timberwolves coming off his excused absence from Wednesday's practice. And then later they discuss how the team can compensate for LeBron sitting out games and how to account for his absence on both sides of the ball.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.5 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And this morning, we got a report from Shams and Dave McMinneman that LeBron is unlikely to play on Friday D. And between that and an excused absence from practice, they got back to practice |
| 0:38.9 | on Wednesday, but LeBron was not with them. It's the first time there have been hints of load |
| 0:44.2 | management for LeBron this year for sure. And it's something that he's always kind of bristled |
| 0:49.9 | against the idea of that. Lakers have two games. And then after Sunday, they don't play again until Thursday. So it's sort of the same type of thing as we experience this week. They play a game on Sunday. They don't wait quite as long. They play on Friday this week, Thursday next week, but still a long break for the NBA regular season, D. And so part of me wonders if he plays Sunday either. Do you just |
| 1:11.9 | give him basically two weeks off? Who knows? And then as you pointed out in our text exchange |
| 1:17.3 | earlier Sunday, I believe is the opening of the trade deadline. Right. And so that next week, |
| 1:22.4 | I think we're going to do a comprehensive look at the trade market. But first, LeBron, |
| 1:27.2 | Dee, this is, this stands out to me. |
| 1:29.5 | I don't know if it's related to injury or just related to rest. It seems like it's more of that. |
| 1:34.1 | What's your take on this news? Yeah, it's unclear. Honestly, the sore foot came out of nowhere. |
| 1:40.5 | And so he missed a game with a sore foot. LeBron, I'd have to go back and read all of the CBA |
| 1:47.2 | language around this, but in one of the recent negotiations around the CBA, it was noted that you |
| 1:55.7 | could seemingly rest players who either had an injury history or were like old enough, I think. |
| 2:04.3 | And so I'd have to look at the language specifically. |
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