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 Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Rour Podcast Network.

I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And it's funny, D, usually this time of the season, we have our team, right?

Sometimes there's an extra addition right toward the end of the summer or a training

camp at or something like that, but you basically have your team together normally at this

point.

But this is not a normal off season.

And both of our leaders, Jeannie Bus and Rob Polenka, have gone on record and said, we're

not done. We're not done this off season. But most of the off season is done, D, right? And so there is this kind of elephant in the room and we're kind of in this state of limbo of what will our team be. And usually like this point we're like, oh, let's analyze all the players. And we'll get to that for sure. But The guys that we settled are kind of the back half of the roster. And they're important.

We talked a lot last year about how you got to have NBA players in those spots. And if you don't, we kind of saw the consequences of not having those guys. But in terms of what this team's going to be, we don't really know yet. So I'm just curious, man, what are your thoughts on this kind of like state of limbo that we're in?

So can I just say that saying you're not done and actually not being done are two different things.

So look, I'm not trying to be a wet blanket.

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