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Covered the NBA for 16 years.

Beat writer for the Lakers and Warriors.

Boy, what a great job. Mark Medina. So glad to have you in studio, Mark. And it's a great time to be alive. The Lakers are cooking with gas. It's so fun to watch. Great time to be alive. Great time to be with you and Rachel and see you. It's a lot of NBA. There's a lot of things on Pat. A lot of things happening. So, Lakers last night the win. Was it more about the rocket's ineptitude or just the Lakers greatness with J.J. Reddick pulling all the right strings?

Well, I think both things can be true. The Lakers have been playing at a really high level. We've seen the offensive chemistry with Luca Dachish, LeBron James, and Austin Reeves perform better. We've actually seen them be a pretty good defensive team, but the Rockets also struggled.

They did not shoot well from three. They struggle without Alpernstein good for the second consecutive

game with a back injury. And Kevin Durant, he himself put the blame on himself because of just

how poorly he shot. He had seven turnovers. So a lot of things unpacked from that game.

Yeah, it seems like the

criticism of the lakers was hey lebron reeves and lucca they can't play together and now reddick

has kind of maybe had a talk with lebron i i don't know that we've got the full story but something's

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