Lakers Lounge

Anthony offers up his main concern with running this core back. The guys discuss how the Lakers will need to address the top limitation across this roster this summer -- athleticism.

Anthony and Jovan turn their attention to the live audience's questions, whereupon a listener wanted to know how they felt about this year's national coverage from either current or new tv partners. The guys discuss this, as well as a couple other topics, to round out the episode.

This mailbag WANDERED. But it was also super fun and took Anthony all over the map.

A listener asked whether expanding the courts (NBA, to be clear) would impact the overall health and availability of the league. Anthony explains why he considered this at one point, but what other concerns would be raised as a result.

Anthony continues through the iTunes mailbag, where a listener asked whether the Lakers should have tanked if they were going to consider this a gap year. Nope. Not an option.

Anthony has noticed a trend in the conversation surrounding the Lakers and far too often, fans jump to the defense of Rob Pelinka with illogical tactics.

Anthony and Raj give their predictions on how they think this series will play out and explain why, going matchup by matchup and key factor by key factor. They did this while watching the Heat-Hornets play-in game and reacted to in real-time too. Amazon, get your stuff together.

Anthony and Raj start the show with their predictions for the series. Anthony weasled out and he isn't proud of it. Then, the guys marvel at how doubted LeBron James has been this season and the impact that might have on this series.

The Lakers and Rockets are completely different teams with incredibly different approaches to roster building and yet... their solutions to the issues their opponents are going to present are going to be oddly similar. Anthony and Raj explain.

Anthony plays his second favorite sounder on the show as an example of what the Lakers need to do to limit Alperen Sengun's impact on the series. Raj still somehow doesn't get the sounder.