Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

Exciting time of year, Darvinham, Rob Polenka spoke to the media yesterday.

We're going to break down everything they had to say in a presser that went almost an hour.

They had tons to say during this time because there's a lot of optimism around the Lakers right now.

Joining me is Editor Extraordinary Daniel Stark and Daniel, thanks for coming in.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well.

I think you took the words right out of my mouth as far as the optimism goes.

But yeah, I guess we could officially mark the end of the offseason.

I guess we got this one last weekend here before Media Day on Monday. But yeah, excited to talk some some Lakers basketball and ready to get into it. Yeah, this is, this was kind of a pre-media day that they, that they did. Sometimes Media Day gets a little crazy, gets a little hectic, and the focus is on

the players, rightfully so. So I don't blame, you know, Darwin, Han, Rob Polinka for doing this

ahead of time. I think it's actually a pretty good thing because we got so much out of them. They

wouldn't have an opportunity to speak like this on Media Day itself. So it was cool that they did

this in advance of Monday's Media Day training camp will officially kick off on Tuesday and then next Saturday. So a week from this coming Saturday, week from tomorrow, we're going to see the first preseason game for the Lakers. So we're right there, Lakers basketball pretty much back in action. Before we get into the thick of it, everybody, make sure if you're over on the YouTube channel, hit that like button, get this video out to as many people as we can. And of course, subscribe. Again, the Lakers are back. We're going to be here all season long, giving you everything that you need to know. So make sure you do subscribe to the channel. And then podcast listeners, great way to help out the show is go give us a five-star rating and

review over on Apple Podcasts. We definitely appreciate it. All right. So, Daniel, this time last year,

we were talking about, are the Lakers going to trade Russell Westbrook? In fact, we even thought

at the time that a Russell Westbrook trade was going to go down the

night before media day we thought it was happening and you fast forward to today what a difference

we're seeing with this team so just just comparing what was what was being there for that presser

like this year compared to what you've seen over the past

couple of years?

Yeah, no, I think you'd bring up a good point talking about last year because I remember

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