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 Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire

Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And yesterday, we started telling the

story of Frank Vogel's journey with the Lakers. And so if you haven't listened to that, I'd encourage you to listen to that first, but you

don't have to kind of get the gist of it.

And what we discussed was Vogel's arrival to the Lakers and how it was in a similarly tumultuous

offseason to the one that we're going into right now and how we calmed the waters and helped

lead us to the 2020 NBA championship.

And so that's where we pick up our story in today's pod.

We go into the 2021 off season.

This is a very shortened off season.

And within that, the Lakers also start acquiring kind of different players.

In yesterday's pod, we talked about how it was LeBron A.D. and a bunch of big physical defenders

with motor that didn't provide a lot of shot creation. That was kind of limited. But it was a great

formula peanut butter and jelly with the two superstars who cooked alongside the third superstar, which was the defense.

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