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, as always, by Darius and Mike. And in the last episode, we talked about some starting lineup ideas, right? There's more influx in terms of who starts and where. And within that end, the context of a pretty

talented roster, a lot of guys that are used to getting shots, used to getting minutes, that for all

of this to work, there's going to take a certain degree of sacrifice. And when the various role

players, especially that were signed on last Friday, a few of them talked about the idea of sacrifice.

Trevor Reza stood out to me in particular.

Harrison asked about his role and what that would look like going forward and whether he got any input on if he should start, if he's going to start, come off the bench and all of that.

And he said, I don't know and that's not really what it's about, right?

And when Ellington brought this up as well.

These are also things, Darius, that are easy to say in your introductory press conference

and can sometimes be more difficult to live and to go through, right?

What does it mean, in your eyes, to sacrifice for a team,

especially coming from the perspectives that these guys are coming from? First off, I will say that

it's good to say it, at least. It is harder to do, but I like hearing it said, like, this isn't to dog Dennis by any means, right?

But last season, it was some of his first media comments, right?

And the thing he's saying is, yeah, like, I want to start.

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