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locked on NBA. Locked on Podcast Network, your team, every day. Today. Welcome everybody to the Lockdown Lakers podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I am not joined by anybody. I am riding solo for this one after the Lakers win their semi-final game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in double

overtime sending them to the championship game to defend last year's Summer League title.

That was a really fun one.

Unfortunately, I had to write the recap for it

for Silver Scr particularly cared about care about, care about that kind of thing.

Today's show, we're going to, or I'm going to,

talk about the Josh Hart and Contavius Caldwell Pope

kind of situation.

It's not really a situation right now and I'm going to explain why it isn't a situation and that I don't think it's one of those things that anybody has to get all hot and bothered about having to choose one over the

other. And I'll get into the reasons behind that and just kind of offer as much contact

as I can on the situation and give my two sense on how I think this can can play

out best for the Lakers and and everybody involved really right so we're gonna

we're gonna talk a little bit in the beginning about what Josh Hart is doing so far, what he's shown thus far in his career,

what Kintavius Caldwell Pope has shown in his career? That'll be the first segment. The second segment will be

What do the Lakers really need from this position? What do both of those guys offer in that respect?

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