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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
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In a continuation of their wide-reaching discussion on NBA media, Pete and Darius discuss how growing up in the era NBA fandom they did shaped their views of the league, how to discern between rumor and reporting, the nature of how the league is covered by its media partners in 2025, the differences between local and national coverage of the Lakers, what to make of the latest LeBron news cycle, and much more.
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| 0:15.1 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:18.5 | You follow the box scores at the games every day? |
| 0:21.1 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:22.4 | You're kidding. |
| 0:23.7 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:27.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:32.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:35.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:38.0 | Correct. |
| 0:38.6 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius. |
| 0:43.3 | And last week, the last question of the mailbag that we did has been ringing through |
| 0:47.0 | my head ever since then. |
| 0:48.8 | Something happened this weekend that made me want to continue the conversation. |
| 0:52.5 | To refresh your memory, it was a question about |
| 0:54.8 | kind of who to trust during the course of this trade and rumor season. How do you distill |
| 0:59.4 | information? How do you determine what is true and what is not? And there was a report this |
| 1:05.1 | weekend, Dee, on ESPN, co-bylined by Ramona Shelburne and Brian Winhorst about the kind of transition in power from the LeBron era to the Luca era. |
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