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 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.

We are exactly three weeks away from the first preseason game.

And today I want to talk about a specific aspect of LeBron's game that as he's gotten older, I always wondered,

like, what is the next chapter? I remember Jordan getting older. I remembered Magic getting

older, not as older as we wish he would have, right? He missed a big gap between 31 and 36

when he came back and played for a couple of months. I remember Kobe getting older,

although the change in his game was sudden with the Achilles injury. But for guys in that

bigger wing size players of which LeBron is on the upper end of size, there is usually the final

chapter of their career, when they're great, has a lot of, it transitions

from being sort of that, oh, you're big and you're athletic and we can't handle you at all

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