Lakers Lounge

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about what season of the Lakers they'd like to get the Last Dance treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Anthony and Jas breakdown ESPN's latest two episodes of The Last Dance. To kick things off, the guys discuss how competitive Michael Jordan was during his NBA days and why that separated him from the crowd. Then, Anthony and Jas compare trash talking and the combativeness of NBA teams from the 90s to today. The guys discuss how it would be if LeBron James and Kevin Durant played w...

On today's episode of "Can U Dig It?", Christian and Jacob go over the latest rumors surrounding the highly-anticipated return of the NBA season. While there's no set return date yet, the expectation is that the 2019-20 season will end with a champion, and LeBron James is hoping it's the Lakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sabreena and Anthony start by recapping the news of the week, including the opening of practice facilities and the Lakers -- a franchise valued at $4.4 billion -- applying for a small business loan, and they try to make sense of the path the league is taking towards potentially resuming operations for the 2019-20 season. Then, they focus on the larger question of how the NBA will be fundamentally...

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla on the NBA opening up team facilities May 8th. The Lakers working with L.A. County Health Officials to open their facility early. And the guys talk about what games they'd would have love to be at live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the NBA regular season likely finished, Jacob and Christian handed out the first-ever Screenie Awards, or "The Screenies," to the players on the Lakers' for things both good and bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony and Sabreena are inspired by two recent pieces of pop culture - "The Last Dance" and Ethan Strauss's "The Victory Machine" - to discuss a topic of significant interest to Lakers fans: dynasties. Namely, they are intrigued as to why the dynasties depicted all seem so miserable. If winning is supposed to cure everything, why is it that the teams that win the most have the least fun? The two...

Harrison and Christian needed some ideas for things to talk about, and the "Lakers, Explained" listeners delivered. They discussed whether this current Lakers team could beat the Kobe-Pau version, their picks for end of year awards and hatched a plot to cyberbully Harrison's fiancee into letting him name their theoretical child. All that and more on their latest episode. Learn more about your ad c...

In this episode, Anthony and Jas kick things off by discussing what coronavirus pandemic and the effect it is having on society as a whole. Next, the guys get into when they're expecting the NBA to be back and how the league should proceed with the scheduling of games. Following that, Anthony and Jas discuss the first two episodes of "The Last Dance' documentary and what memories they have of the...

As children of the 90s, Jacob and Christian weren't able to experience the Showtime Lakers, however, through the power of the internet, they did the next best thing and re-watched a game — specifically Game 6 of the 1987 Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sabreena and Anthony discuss three really good Lakers teams that didn’t win a championship: the 1961-62 Elgin Baylor/Jerry West team, the 1997-98 pre-Phil Jackson Shaq Lakers, and the 2012-13 “Now This Is Going To Be Fun” Lakers. The two of them take a deep dive down memory lane to go through what made these teams great, but also the specific challenges they faced in those seasons that prevented t...

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla pretend the season ended. What did the Lakers get right, what did the Lakers do wrong and what should they fix for next season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As of Monday night, it’s been four years since Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in an unforgettable performance on his final night as a Laker. That little anniversary seemed like as good of a reason as any for hosts Harrison Faigen and Christian Rivas to rewind and reconsider that game for their latest episode of “Lakers, Explained,” a podcast by Silver Screen and Roll. Learn more about your ad choice...

It has officially been one month since the NBA began its suspension, and Sabreena and Anthony discuss whether or not they think there will be any more basketball in the 2019-20 season. They go through the factors the league has to consider in terms of resuming play, specifically postseason play, and consider what the ramifications of any decision would be for next year. Then, they focus on how thi...

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about the latest with the NBA during the COVD-19 pandemic. Plus this week they compare current Lakers to WWE wrestlers old and new! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you ever wanted to build the best player possible using attributes from the best Lakers ever? Harrison and Christian have, and on their latest episode of "Lakers, Explained," they try to use skills from legends of the past to create the best Frankenstein'd version of a star player they can. Whose player is better? Listen and decide for yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...

In this episode, Jas is joined by Israeli NBA analyst Eran Soroka. To kick things off, they discuss Kobe Bryant's induction into the Hall of Fame and what it means for his legacy. Eran and Jas also talk about not having the opportunity to hear Kobe's acceptance speech and how amazing it would have been. Then, the guys get into what Kobe's impact was on the game from a global perspective and how th...

Sabreena is joined by Anthony to make competing Lakers All-Decade Teams, but with a twist. Each team can only contain one player from each season, and no players can be chosen twice. If you're familiar with this decade of Lakers basketball, starting with the 2010-11 season, you'll know that the two of them had to dig deep to field a competent starting five. Who do you think drafted a better team?...

ESPN re-aired an all-time LeBron James playoff performance on Wednesday night, so Jacob and Christian thought it would be a good idea to look back and remind everyone just how good James is in the playoffs. They also talked about James' comments on the NBA's return, and what it could mean for the league calendar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about the report that all the Laker players have been cleared from the Coronavirus. Then they do this weeks list where they list their most hated rival the Lakers have played. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sabreena is joined by Anthony to discuss a question that has been on their minds: Do Laker fans underrate the three-peat Lakers from 2000-2002? The two of them go over their individual memories of that period in Lakers history and how they feel about it compared to other great eras in Laker fandom. They then go over why it's possible the collective memory has attached so much more significance to...

In the second installment of our "re-watchables" series, we took a look back at the 2000 NBA Finals, when a 21-year-old Kobe Bryant carried the Lakers in overtime with Shaquille O'Neal watching from the bench with six fouls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about their favorite Laker players that they consider obscure! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With still no basketball in sight, Christian and Harrison decided to talk about how they originally became Lakers fans, and also surveyed the community for their stories. They did not disappoint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Jas is joined by Anthony Irwin to look back at the 1999-2000 Lakers. They discuss the impact hiring Phil Jackson had on the team after the Lakers moved on from Dell Harris and what Jackson brought to the team's mentality. Anthony and Jas look back at the long winning streaks the Lakers had during the season and how it felt different from years past. Then, the guys get into the pla...