What's up, Laker fans? You're listening to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius.

And here we are, finally, at the first day of the summer of optionality. And I wanted to give

you guys a list of just sort of things that I believe up top about this summer. I spent a couple

hours last night kind of putting things in chronological order best I could.

Start out, though, Lakers fans should have high expectations about this summer.

I know there's a certain degree of like, they're just going to kick the can down the road like

they always do mentality that the first time I heard about the summer of 26 was actually

when I was still working with

the Lakers late in 23.

And so this has been a summer the Lakers have had circled for a long time as the opportunity

to really reshape the team.

But with options come lots of pitfalls.

It doesn't mean you're going to make the right choice all the time.

But it is exciting.

I think Laker fans should be excited.

This is the first chance to really reshape the team in a minute. And if you love the trade machine, this is a great summer to be a Laker fan. You're also going to have to be very careful about the media that you consume. We'll talk about that a little more later and continually throughout this offseason. Now, as far as the team construct goes,

Dee, I think this is going to be a team that's built around Luca and Austin. We heard how

Polinko was talking about Austin, and I think that very much the construct of the team is built

around those two guys being there. Now, where I'm at on that whole idea is I want it to be like

a 2A or 2B type of situation with like a high level

athletic 4 who can score on the ball. And that might be LeBron. But I don't think that LeBron is

considered a pillar just because of his age. And we'll get to that topic in depth for sure going

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