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 in the final segment, I cannot wait, bombshell reporting from Pablo Torre about

Kauai Leonard and possible endorsement deals, some shady dealings that we're going to get to in that last segment.

I've been cracking up about all morning. Stick around for that. But first, we're going to wrap up our

conversation about what does Rob Polenko believe in? If you didn't get a chance, last week we

recorded a pod that was part one to this, where I guess where I want to start, D, is a lot of

that conversation from my perspective,

was setting the stage about the environment and context in which Rob operates. And one of the

points that I was making was that I think a big part of Rob's job is to sort of execute on the

agreed upon vision of the group collectively. There are a lot of voices

that contribute to what direction the Lakers go in, the most powerful of which that I think

Rob serves are the owner and Janie, or at least up until the Walter purchase, and then

the most powerful player who'd been LeBron and Clutch and all of them.

And D, while that is important context, I don't want to make it sound like Rob is just some

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