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. And because we're all living on a very strange timeline for the second Saturday in a row,

an underhanded Lakers team got a stellar win against an Eastern Conference playoff opponent,

only for that to be immediately overshadowed by some stunning trade news, D,

as the Mark Williams for Dalton Connect and a first in a swap trade gets rescinded due to multiple concerns.

Apparently, over the physical that wasn't explicitly stated, but it seems

a lot of the reporting is around that. And so the Lakers post-trade deadline do not have a five that

makes more than a vetman contract, Dee, while also having the debut of Luca Donchich tonight,

which is somehow the third thing that we're going to talk

about, probably toward the end of this pod, D. And so let's talk about that trade getting rescinded

leaves the Lakers in a bit of a spot. It does. I want to ask you first, how do you feel in the

aftermath? I don't know if this is a vestige of the Luca trade and just feeling like the next

five years aren't totally screwed, which is where I was kind of feeling before that trade

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