Why the Lakers Didn't Sign Trent Jr.
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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Summary
Gary Trent, Jr. signed with Milwaukee on a vet minimum, as the latest example of a potential Lakers target who signed elsewhere. Pete and Darius are joined by Harrison Faigen to discuss why the Lakers didn’t sign him, how the Player Options on veteran minimum players has come back to bite them, why prioritizing Max & Knecht may be the smarter long term play, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and a special guest who, come to think of it, I'm not sure, has ever been on this podcast before. Harrison, have you ever been on the pod before? So I have. I was going to say, first of all, thank you for having me. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, it wasn't memorable, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. How long have you been doing this pod? You weren't there, Pete. 2016. Oh, that's right. I was in the hospital. Yeah. I was going to say, I was going to say, thank you. I finally get to make, |
| 0:52.1 | I finally get to make a podcast appearance |
| 0:54.0 | while Pete is conscious. |
| 0:55.4 | This is like, |
| 0:55.9 | this is big growth for our relationship. |
| 0:57.7 | Like, I finally get to make, I finally get to make a podcast appearance while Pete is conscious. |
| 0:55.5 | This is like, this is big growth for our relationship. |
| 0:57.9 | Like, he finally voluntarily let me on the pod. |
| 1:00.6 | This is awesome. |
| 1:01.5 | That's why I was like, why do I have no recollection of this? |
| 1:04.0 | I feel less bad that I had no memory at all. |
| 1:07.4 | Didn't even listen to the episode, Harrison. |
| 1:09.6 | I think a lot of memory that week. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. |
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