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With the various factions of the Los Angeles Lakers taking shots at each other in the media for a variety of reasons and on several subjects, there’s definitely plenty of content for our podcasts to cover, and everything ranging from the coaching staff’s personnel preferences to a retroactive analysis of a hubris-filled presser gets discussed.
The Lake Show
After signing LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Rob Pelinka and the rest of the front office made, um, well, let’s just say the decisions they made were interesting. At the time, their explanations were entertaining to most, but now, after this season has essentially ended in failure, their hubris shines brighter than they’d probably like.
Today’s “The Lake Show” examines that fateful press conference line by line and, boy, let us tell you: You’re going to need to bring your sense of humor to the experience of reliving some of these responses.
After discussing the latest reports on Julius Randle, Brook Lopez, Luke Walton and Andre Ingram, Harrison and I have some fun with the astonishingly hilarious thought process that went into the moves that damned this Lakers season.
Listen to our full conversation below and, for more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts.
Locked on Lakers
The Randle and Lopez situations have been basically reported as thoroughly as they’re going to be. So between what has been made public and what I have to work off of myself, I take you through what went into the decision not to bring them back and how this wasn’t a one-sided situation.
I then touch on a trend we should all take note of: How the front office seems to rush into decisions and make them well before they have to be made. It’s come up multiple times at this point and has to go away as soon as it possibly can.
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