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 Darius.

And today we continue sort of, we're laying the groundwork for what we all want to know is

what moves are the Lakers going to make to build around Luka, to build next year's team and beyond?

And so today, as part of that, we're going to take a look at the Lakers' salary cap situation,

both this season and next season.

And D, I think it tells kind of two different stories.

Right now, the Lakers, a lot is going to be dependent upon LeBron's opt-in, which is the place I'd love for us to

start. But also next summer, a lot of things, the way that things are set up is only Vando is on

the books. And I think Brony has a partial guarantee. But next summer is an opportunity for

the Lakers to have kind of a hard reset of the roster. And there are a lot of options in between.

And so that's sort of the thing that stands out to me, D,

is I look at the Lakers from a salary cap situation standpoint is maybe not as much this

summer, but more broadly speaking, I think the team has a lot of optionality.

You're way better at this stuff than I am.

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