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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-fire 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 Film Room podcast, brought to by the Blue Wire

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Mike, no darius today. And we're seeing the Western Conference standings in a place that we've never seen them before, between the five-seed and the nine-seed. It's a one-game difference. Lakers are currently in the nine-seed, and this shuffles from one night to the next.

Yesterday, Mike, I brought up the idea that, you know, if there was a time to kill the Lakers are currently in the nine seed, and this shuffles from one night to the next. Yesterday, Mike, I brought up the idea that, you know, if there was a time to kill the Lakers,

it was during the first half of this season.

But we find ourselves really shoulder to shoulder with a lot of other teams in a lot of

different places.

So that's what we're going to talk about a little bit today is what to project going forward, which is extremely difficult in this environment with so many players in and out of health, health and safety protocol. But in some ways, it may be an equalizing thing to Mike, where it's probably going to hit everyone to some extent. So when the dust settles, assuming it does, and we don't know that, I think projecting forward

of who can rise, who will fall, who will kind of stay the same, I think is an interesting

conversation and something for us to target long term.

When you look at that bunched up group, Mike, what stands out to you?

Yeah, I've said before that the page that I probably go to the most when I'm browsing and looking and researching

and stuff online is probably the standings, probably the NBA standings page. I've got it saved

like way over to the left of my thing. And so it's been such an interesting thing to monitor

for this season because had you told me that the Lakers were 16 and 18 at this point of the

year, I would have said, okay, so I assume that both LeBron and AD got hurt or are out. And sure,

that is definitely what has happened amidst many other things. But I would not have expected,

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