It's the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and the Lakers are back to .500! Michael and Cooper recap the strange road trip and Kings/Pistons game (:40) then talk Big Picture Takeaways (3:00) and debate whether the Lakers are better off now than one year ago. They play the Blame Game (26:15) with Frank Vogel and Rob Pelinka, and the status of Russ and AD's Js (49:00). They finish with Showtime (1:00:45), and This Day in Lakers History, featuring an epic Kobe performance (1:08:00)

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