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 you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we have some movement. We had a trade yesterday. Lakers acquired Patrick Beverly for THT and Stanley Johnson.

And this is something, guys, that it has so many different aspects to it that I want to have a tail-in pod.

I have a lot to say about the entire situation and how we got here.

I'm actually very sad.

Like, I think if you wanted my 15-second, what do you think of the trade?

I think it's a good trade.

I think we added a legit trade. I think we added a

legit in-pan rotation player on a on a playoff team and those high-level playoff games for two guys

that I think Yovans done some good reporting on this that were not projected to be in the

rotation. And I think that's ultimately a good thing. The fact that we ended up in this place

with THT, I think is sad. Like it was kind of a bit of a gut thing. The fact that we ended up in this place with THT, I think, is sad. Like,

it was kind of a bit of a gut punch. But in today's episode, I want to talk about Pat Bell.

We'll save the THT talk for another pod. And so before guys, we get into any of the analysis

of him as a player or anything like that, I, on some level, this is a hilarious trait.

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