It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to Bidee to Vaidi Tewlach on Lakers podcast, I'm Anthony Erwin.

I'm joined by Pete Z ASP because of the type of show that we're doing today

we're actually going to forego the fun hypothetical question. It just requires a lot of kind of setup and all of that. We are today going to jump into dive ourselves or immerse ourselves in the what if the Chris Paul trade actually gets to go through and I feel like like for just

about every Laker fan this is the all-time what if right like if you were to ask a bunch of

people if you could have one thing back or see how one thing plays out

This is the thing they go to

Yes, of course it's like a man. It's a sliding doors moment right where like what would even beyond that year that season

what would like this team would probably look nothing like what it looks like right now

if Chris Paul's like I wonder how long the reverberation would be because it would sit like Chris Paul's

like I wonder how long the reverberation would be because it would sit like

Chris Paul's still a like floor raising you know good enough to be the guy who leads your team to the playoffs kind of guy

he's doing that with an okc team that people weren't expecting to do that with yeah so like yeah

I wonder how long it would it would have lasted that that impact on the franchise.

So we're gonna we're gonna get into kind of the ripple effects the ramifications of this entire

ordeal and who knows how long that might go for.

We could go forever on that.

That'll be the third segment.

Second segment we're gonna talk about how that immediately impacted the Lakers.

First segment we're gonna talk about just the shock factor. It was it's a it's one of the

absolute holy shit moments in the history of the of you let's just let's just first set the scene with how this goes down right so the

Lakers were going to trade they were going to receive Chris Paul

Powell was going to go to the rockets Kevin Martin Louis Scola and Lamar

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