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 let's start with a PSA. The Eurobasket Friendlies start tomorrow.

Luke is going to be leading Slovenia through that. The official tournament, I believe, starts on August 27th. Tomorrow's game is

going to be at 1115 a.m. Pacific time. There are streams out there. We'll send one out tomorrow,

but you will not hear tomorrow's pod before that game. So if you wanted to watch some basketball,

D, we're slim pickings right now. And so what we're going to do is we're going to go back in time.

And there is this phenomenon from watching basketball our whole lives that has really recently,

over the last, I'd say, five, ten years started to really crystallize into my mind is

how players get remembered.

It's not this even or even fair distribution of this is how good

they were. And then it stays that way in terms of how everybody remembers them over time.

So much has to do with the level of PR, how many people you've got sort of speaking, sort of

singing your praises and telling your old stories. And so I wanted to have

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