Lakers Lounge

The Knicks are not going to hang a banner. Anthony offers up a bit of life advice: Never have anything in common with James Dolan. Then, he dives back into some trade thoughts with a couple archetypes and hypothetical examples. He wraps with some thoughts about the buyout market, then answers a couple questions from the live audience.

Anthony opens with some advice just in case the Lakers are considering pulling down their NBA Cup banner: You never want to have anything in common with James Dolan.

The Lakers need to find a way to open another roster spot and take back a little less money so they can benefit from what might be a fruitful buyout season.

Obviously the hope for most is that they wind up acquiring Giannis Antetokounmpo but if they don't, there are still ways for the Lakers to benefit from him being traded. Anthony discusses this as well as other trade scenarios and answers questions from the live youtube audience.

Milwaukee is getting ready to make yet another desperation play to try to convince Giannis Antetokounmpo to stick around. Anthony wonders if this is the time to take advantage of the Bucks' desperation.

Anthony makes the case for Giannis being traded somewhere else actually being better for the Lakers, especially if they can land the wing they need for a discount and maybe even wait for Antetokounmpo's impending free agency.

Welcomes to trade season, everyone! Anthony gives some initial thoughts on how this one will play out, then dives into the iTunes and Youtube mailbags to answer all kinds of questions on everything from the Lakers' trade targets to orcas.

The Lakers clearly need a couple more athletes even after JJ Redick finally balanced out the rotation. How they'll get them is another question altogether, especially as the Giannis trade situation looms so large over trade season.

Anthony has been doing this for more than a decade and mailbags have been a popular podcast type all this time and finally, after all those thousands of episodes, he was asked about a subject he truly cares about: the orcas. That and more trade stuff.

Anthony and Raj talk about one of the dumber basketball games we'll see this year. Anthony is out on Dillon Brooks after that performance. Vando finally got some minutes and looked great. What does that mean for the rotation? Anthony gives a new Rui analogy.

Dillon Brooks cost his team that game. The guys debate to what extent that should be taken into account when talking about Brooks as a trade target.

Anthony has had enough with Rui Hachimura. Raj pushes back a bit, which leads to a fun conversation.

Once again, there's a big difference in what maybe should happen versus what probably will happen here. The guys talk out the rotation tweaks that might be coming.

Anthony welcomes Khobi Price (SCNG, OC Register) to discuss the glass ceiling the Lakers keep bumping up against. Is there a way to improve the collective athleticism in the Lakers rotation internally? Or is a trade required to address this clear deficiency? The guys talk this, the starting lineup and the Giannis trade rumors that hang over everything.

Anthony and Khobi discuss that ugly loss to the Spurs and why they seem to keep getting blown out. Is there anything that can be done before trade season?

JJ Redick has made the decision to keep Jarred Vanderbilt out of the rotation completely. Anthony and Khobi talk about the implications of this decision and whether it's something Redick should reconsider.

The Lakers lost in an all too familiar way, which has Anthony pulling out his hair for having to have the same conversation all over again. Please, JJ Redick, we're begging. Change up the starters.

Anthony once again notes the ways the Lakers are getting blown out and the specific problems that lead to these lopsided losses.

Austin struggled against length and athleticism again, so the familiar criticisms popped back up. Anthony addresses those criticisms (and doesn't necessarily disagree), but thinks Reaves' struggles are indicative of a flawed roster moreso than of Reaves' own shortcomings being some fatal flaw as a player.

Anthony answers some questions from the live audience and, in doing so, addresses Rich Paul's comments about the Lakers not being a championship organization. Those comments rang a little hollow seeing as LeBron and his camp butt heads with Pat Riley and the championship organization that the Heat was.

These episodes where Anthony and Harrison basically wandered around a subject like Rich Paul launching his new podcast with some Lakers takes are usually when they're at their best. So let's see how this one goes!

Seems like a bad idea!

LeBron spoke about Austin Reaves on his own podcast today and somehow that message (as well as James' own actions while playing with Reaves) is being ignored completely because it's more fun to dramatize what James might think about Reaves based on what his agent said on a podcast.

Anthony was traveling and had a bunch of pent-up takes he needed to fire off coming off that great Lakers road trip. This was a blast to record.

Anthony and Raj give their thoughts on the Playback platform shutting down, then dive into this most recent and successful Lakers road trip.