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. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. Sorry for the slow week. Last week, lots of stuff going on in my personal life. Had to get on track. But we're back at it, and we are one week away from Media Day. We'll have a Rob Polinka and JJ Redick press conference this week.

One of my favorite press conferences of the years,

because I think it provides a lot of insight that's unfiltered over a long-form type of format.

And so we're going to cover that very extensively.

Again, one week away from Media Day,

our last week without kind of Lakers basketball D. And I wanted to talk today about sort of where

we're at, what our expectations are of training camp and what we expect over this first part

of training camp because I think it's an important one for the Lakers. Oh yeah. Every camp

offers a certain amount of insight into what the team thinks of itself.

And some of that is also going to be revealed in any comments that we get from Rob and

JJ Redick as well.

Sometimes there's gas in those things,

like folks sort of like feeling themselves

a little bit too much.

That happened with Rob a couple of different times

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