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What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box cards 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 Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue R Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And today we're going to preview the Western Conference. Yesterday, we did a right now preview of the Lakers. We're going to take a look into the bigger picture in the West. And to do that, Mike, set us up here. What are we looking at?

All right. So, guys, we have a little bit of a tier system, okay, that I put together and I would love to be persuaded to drop or raise a couple of these teams. And this is just an initial list.

Now, the one thing that I want to stipulate before we start, and this is, I need you guys to

weigh in, do we want to look at this as order we think they're going to finish in the regular season? Or just who's going to be the best teams by the end of the season? Ooh, that's good. I'm going to go with best teams by the end of the season because I think everyone's kind of, you know, a team like Minnesota is playing for something different than the Lakers are. Okay. Good. So with that said, and that's how I did it. So this isn't necessarily going to be who is going to finish first in the West, which is basically, you know, a team like Utah has an edge. This is, I'm going to penalize Utah for what I think might happen eventually with the way that that works. I'm shocked. I know. I can't believe it.

I mean, it was right. So, okay. All right. Let's start. Never change, Mike. Never change. I don't know what you want me to say. Let's start at the bottom. And I don't think we need to spend a lot of time here, guys.

So we can all agree Thunder Rockets would be the bottom.

Yeah?

Yes.

Okay.

So the only thing is that with Zion's uncertainty, I actually put the Pelicans in this mix.

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