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 part 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 D. last night, Lakers had their first

loss of the 2026 postseason, blowout loss to the Houston Rockets. It got a little chippy at the end.

Had a couple of

fairly absurd Laker objections in the game. Lakers turned the ball over 24 times. LeBron, Marcus,

Ann Kinnard all kind of held in check. It started out, okay. They were, you know, it was a tie

game basically through the first 10 minutes, but Houston started to pull away a little bit at the

end of the first, and then throughout the second quarter pull away a little bit at the end of the

first, and then throughout the second quarter go to halftime up by nine, then really break it

open in that second half. And Lakers end up having their garbage time squad on the court with

seven minutes left in the game, kind of pack it in early, again, a little bit of chippiness

throughout. But, D, it's been two games since we last

talked. We also had the win in game three. Thank you to Raj for hopping on for that.

But we'd love just your thoughts in general about the Lakers weekend in Houston.

I'm of two minds about this, Pete, honestly. The Lakers did what they were supposed to do in

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