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locked on NBA. Locked on Podcast Network, your team, every day. Hey. Lockdown Lakers podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I'm joined by no one. It's still kind of tough

to get a hold of anybody to be able to record these. Everybody is kind of

scrambling around not just just, you know, dealing with

loss and everything, but also in trying to get their minds back to talking about basketball.

So today I kind of wanted to talk about, you know,

how the Lakers are handling this, how, you know,

where they can go next. there's a big question right now kind of a

debate about whether or not the Lakers should you know dedicate this season or win the championship specifically for Kobe

So I kind of want to give my thoughts on that and then there are still a few questions here left over from

Yesterday's mailbag seeing as Pete and I got to it about a segment later than we normally would have planned to. So that gives us some time there.

Let's start though with... So that gives us some time there.

Let's start though with how the Lakers are kind of handling, you know, the public statement. I think to this point the only public statement they made was regarding the

postponement of their game against the clippers. You have

You know other than that, you had Frank Vogel speak on behalf of everybody at the practice yesterday, and it kind of reminded me of obviously completely

different circumstances but if we if we look back on how they handled things when Magic Johnson stepped down and the absolute

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