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 bar 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 Darius and Mike. And this is part two of our preview, Lakers versus Nuggets, Western Conference Finals. Please listen to Part 1 as yesterday's episode. We did a little bit of a

self-scout on the Lakers talking about the rotations and how I feel at least a few things

have kind of locked into place. We'll see how that ends up going. But I think the headline for

this series, Mike, last series, LeBron versus Steph, right? A classic NBA battle. There's the talk of the NBA

from its very beginning has always been Russell versus Chamberlain, right? Even before that,

Mican versus Shays type of thing, right? Kreme versus Nate Thurman, even guys that aren't

Mount Rushmore guys, but are all-time greats, right? And it's that sort of this guy versus that guy. Anthony Davis versus Niccolo Yokic, both guys in their prime, is an all-time great, man. I remember them Shaq versus David Robinson, Shaq versus Akimelajuan type of matchups. This is one of those to me, Mike. So I'd love to hear your your thoughts on that man. All-time great big man matchup. Yeah, for sure. The Lakers did

to Yokic in the 1920 conference finals. You would be surprised if you just went back and

looked at his stats relative to what they are now. They really limited him. And it wasn't

just AD, like it was Dwight Howard,

ended up starting later in the series.

It was a little bit of McGee early on,

but it really was AD as the primary guy and LeBron.

That's the other part of this too.

Like in LeBron a couple of years ago,

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