Lakers Lounge

With reports out that the Knicks and Bucks held trade talks for Giannis, Anthony explains how this makes the Lakers offseason make a little more sense and also blurs this upcoming season. He also discusses the Lakers' training camp approach and how it might be setting them up for failure.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is apparently looking outside Brooklyn but never really set his sights on the Lakers. Anthony connects the dots to make the Lakers' offseason make a little more sense. The Lakers continued their lackadaisical approach to training camp and Anthony is starting to get worried.

Anthony uses the Giannis reports from ESPN to connect the dots on this Lakers offseason, then explains the balance the Lakers will need to strike as they weigh remaining flexible for him but also try to maximize their opportunity this season.

The good news from practice was that Marcus Smart is practicing. Then, we got the bad news, and Anthony is starting to worry that the Lakers are missing an opportunity this training camp.

Anthony breaks down LeBron's "decision" tweet, then dives into his annoyance at the way the Lakers have approached training camp and the preseason to this point.

Anthony reacts to LeBron James' tweet teasing... something (we're pretty sure it's Prime Day). But just in case... we do have to go through scenarios. Then, he dives into the mailbags to talk about the Lakers' unimpressive training camp to this point.

Anthony reacts to LeBron's cryptic tweet that was almost assuredly about Amazon Prime Day. Still, we do have to talk about the if here.

It's going to take a real culture and identity of winning habits for the Lakers to take their next step. So far this training camp and preseason, that identity and habits have been difficult to identify.

Anthony recaps a couple preseason games that are just impossible to actually get muh from.

Anthony and Raj likes some of what they saw from the first couple preseason games, but have grown a little sick of this habit the Lakers have fallen into with preseason availability. They understand being cautious, but there are still things they have to get done before the season starts.