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 D. Today you have a post today or tomorrow.

You got a post going up on silver screen and roll. Give us the premise of that, because that's going to be the premise of this pot.

So basically, we're in the dog days of summer.

But as we've discussed a bunch of times, like the Lakers are actively working to try to improve their team.

Don't take my word for it, take Rob Polinka's word for it, take Jeannie Bus's word for it.

We're not done has been plastered out there as sort of a mantra of where the team is at this offseason.

And since nothing has changed, since those comments have come out, you have to assume that they're still not done.

And one of the things that I've been thinking about is under the idea of like, could Russell Westbrook

return to the Lakers next season? And the more and more I think about it, the more and more

I think that no, he could not. And my sense is that the Lakers need to actually trade

Russell Westbrook. And that it's not a matter of if, it's not a matter of should they.

It's a matter of when to me.

Because I'm of the stance now after thinking about this for a while that there's just too many factors at play here for him to amicably return and for things to move forward as if

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