Lakers Lounge

Anthony asks Harrison after a full episode of positivity and optimism whether he feels better about the team. Turns out, that helps! After talking about Mamu's fit, the guys discuss their findings and whether they felt like card-carrying homers at any point in this discussion.

Anthony outlines the types of lineups he expects to see at various stretches of the Lakers' games this season. Who is going to start? Will they have a bench mob? What will the bench/starter combo lineups look like? Which rules does he foresee for teammate combinations? This was a fun way to look at the roster and figure out how the puzzle pieces might fit.

Anthony predicts who he thinks will be the opening night starters, but also explains why he thinks we might see tweaks to that group and why who starts is important. He then discusses the bench lineups he's curious about, as well as the starter/bench combo groups that often play a key role in the middle portions of the game.

Anthony explains why the garbage lineup will a) be fun and b) is actually important, then outlines the directions he'd take their small and big lineups. From there, he answers a couple questions and calls it a day.

This episode is... a lot. The guys talk about how they'd feel about this if they were Clippers fans. They discuss ESPN's reputation coming out of this. Raj sneaks a few minutes of Lakers basketball talk in, too, and they wander all over the place to try to touch on every aspect of one of the biggest stories we'll cover this year. Oh, and Q&A. They do a Q&A too.

Anthony tries to figure out how to spell sike, Raj explains how Kawhi's response to this was perfect and the table is set for one of the more wide-ranging conversation these guys have had in a little while.

Anthony and Raj discuss Kawhi's complete apathy toward every team's culture he's been a part of, epitomized by his statement about the Clippers punishment.

Anthony tells a story to outline how dangerous it is to allow one person (Shams in this case) to monopolize information.

The live audience stuck around for the whole episode to arrive at a pretty familiar question: So... how can we benefit from this?

The Clippers Clippers-ed and now we get to laugh at the Clippers. Anthony and Harrison handle that task, with a little help from a very special guest.