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locked on NBA. Locked on Podcast Network, your team, every day. Hey. Lock on Laker's Podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I am not joined by anybody. I had gotten, I had a guest

all lined up, then I got sick. And actually, I don't know if you guys can hear it in my voice.

I'm still not feeling all that great so I had to cancel on the guest

and reschedule that one and I am going to record a really short show here just because there one isn't too too much going on and two I don't know how long I'll be able to

to stay vertical I do have plenty to talk about though I want to get into this whole Lonzo Ball story and Big

Ballerbrand story. I want to get into some stuff here about Jason Kidd and the Lakers seemingly having a coaching search while they still have Luke

Walton under contract and while he is still on the sidelines I don't think the optics of that look all that great the the other day talking about how this season has not been as much fun as last

season. So I'm just going to what I'm going to do is I'm going to start with Kuzma's

comments first and and just kind of talk really quickly about you know how expectations have really

painted this season and continue to paint really everything about sports and and so when Kuzma says that you

know last year they were able to focus on developing and and growth and that

process there compared to this year where they can't focus on those things

as much right they have to focus primarily on on winning and making sure that they get the fullest

return on the LeBron James era as they possibly can and what that means for the everybody involved here is that, you know, for somebody like

Kuzma, for guys like Lonzo and Ingram and Hart and throughout that young core, you go from, okay, I have to develop,

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