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 back to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And we are about to enter the final stretch that last third of the season post-All-Star break. And somehow, guys, the Lakers ended up less healthy than they were before the All-Star

break. There have been so many guys. We have five guys on the team in their 20s who have

missed 10-plus games due to either knee effusion or soft tissue injuries. I can't say enough how

I don't believe in the modern way of managing guys throughout the season in terms of having guys available. But this is something I don't know a whole lot about, Mike. So let's kick it to you to start out. What is the update on LeBron and Wood? And then let's kick off our conversation on kind of this last stretch of the season. Yeah, what's up, guys? It's good to be back. The whole injury thing is funny because we haven't actually even heard from Darvin Ham yet because, you know, Darvin met the team in the plane. He wasn't at the end of practice to speak. And then LeBron wasn't there either. So we haven't actually heard from them about it. We just got the update about Wood being out. And it's a, it sounds like it's around

two weeks and then he's going to be reevaluated, but that's different from like when you heard

the knee effusion for Gabe Vincent's, and he was out for a while before he actually ended up

having the surgery. So that's a different timetable and therefore a different injury, even though it says

a fusion, which basically means swelling.

It's confusing.

Here's the bottom line.

The Lakers are now down to basically just Jackson Hayes as a backup big.

And we know that he's not really a backup center in certain matchups just in terms of, as Jackson would tell you himself, his size.

Like he's more of a pogo stick jump up and down type of an athlete.

He's not, he doesn't have a lot in the back of the pants.

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