Lakers Lounge

PART ONE: The Lakers have sustained injuries to all their bigger players and it's made people start to lose their minds. Anthony first apologizes for getting so optimistic, then, with the help of Raj, explains why the sky isn't actually falling.

PART TWO: The Thunder profile as a tremendous postseason threat but for a few reasons, Anthony just can't get behind them. He and Raj talk about that, then Raj calls Jayson Tatum the Thunder of NBA stars and that launches its own rabbit hole.

PART THREE: Larry David was sitting right there for all of LeBron James confronting Stephen A. Smith and we haven't heard from him at all on the matter. Brutal missed opportunity there. The guys have some fun with that, then move on to live questions and comments.

FULL: Anthony welcomes Eric Pincus (Bleacher Report/Sports Business Classroom) into The Lounge to break down the Lakers' options if they want to make a couple of their two-way players eligible for the playoffs. The guys also talk about commonly held misnomers about this new CBA and how the Lakers have been able to navigate that CBA so far.

PART ONE: Eric Pincus walks you through the Lakers' options as they round out the roster in the final month leading up to the playoffs.

PART TWO: Anthony and Eric have a fascinating conversation about the CBA and some of the widely held beliefs that aren't necessarily based in fact.

LOWDOWN: It was a rough night for the Lakers and, while JJ Redick was rightly frustrated with how they played, this one felt like a loss based on who wasn't available and the choices of players who played, too. Anthony offers up an explanation for why Christian Koloko didn't play, even if he disagrees with the logic behind it.

FULL: Anthony thought JJ Redick's comments about the Lakers' loss to the Nets were insightful, so he played them to open things up. Even granting Redick's premise, it felt like the Lakers were just too small in this game and the margins were too thin to overcome given the other problems the Lakers created for themselves.

PART ONE: Anthony found JJ Redick's postgame presser interesting so he plays it in its entirety. While Redick made fair points about shortcuts, the Lakers were also super short in this game by his choice. That should probably also be pointed out.

PART TWO: Anthony wraps up the show with comments from the live audience, which was wondering about the officiating. It was objectively bad, but the Lakers also let it get to them.

Anthony offers up the latest on all the Lakers' injuries (which is now far too long a list) and wonders whether the Lakers shifted their focus from the second seed to just getting everyone as healthy as they can before the playoffs.

FULL: Anthony welcomes Dr. Evans back into The Lounge to talk about the Lakers' lengthening injury reports, starting with LeBron James. Looks like he won't be back for a couple weeks at the soonest. They also talk about Rui Hachimura's knee and Luka Doncic's back. From there, Anthony quickly recaps the loss to the Celtics and some bad habits that caught up to the Lakers. He wraps with some questio...

PART ONE: Anthony welcomes Dr. Evans back into The Lounge to break down the latest reporting on LeBron's injury status, as well as Rui Hachimura's knee and Luka Doncic's back.

PART TWO: The Lakers need to use that loss in Boston as a learning opportunity. Anthony breaks that down, then answers questions from the audience. People are wondering when the Lakers will make their final tweaks to the roster.

FULL: Anthony and Raj take you through that game blow-by-blow and marvel at the floor Luka Doncic and LeBron James give the Lakers, to where, yes, they struggled for most of the game, but it doesn't matter because they're going to keep them close. They talk about the issues the Knicks gave them, then have discussions about Luka making Nico Harrison looks worse by the game, Draymond Green sound a w...

PART ONE: The Lakers won a game they had no business winning and yet, Anthony and Raj had a ton of confidence the longer the fourth went on and the Lakers were within striking distance. That's a pretty crazy thing to say about a team that is so clearly still ironing out some wrinkles.

PART TWO: Anthony and Raj discuss what goes into the amount of confidence they had in the Lakers in this game even when things weren't going well and how the offense can still reach a borderline incomprehensible level.

PART THREE: Anthony has some thoughts on Draymond Green's "apology" to Karl-Anthony Towns for making up a story about him avoiding Jimmy Butler when, in reality, Towns missed that game because of a death in his inner circle of friends.

Anthony offers up the latest on Austin Reaves, Jordan Goodwin and Rui Hachimura, as well as Karl-Anthony Towns of the Knicks ahead of tonight's game. He then gives his thoughts on the matchup, something he'll be doing more of on Lowdowns from here on out. Games are going to get more important so we may as well treat them as such.

FULL: Anthony welcomes Jovan back into The Lounge to talk about the Lakers as legitimate championship contenders. Statistically, the Lakers have been more impressive on defense. What's incredible to think about is what they're capable of on offense. They talk about all this, what the last month as been like, the Lakers' injury situations and how the rest of the league feels about the Luka Doncic t...

PART ONE: Anthony and Jovan get a kick out of the fact that they finally get to be optimistic on a sow together because the Lakers are just legit.

PART TWO: Anthony and Jovan discuss LeBron's approach since the Luka trade and how cool it's been to watch him become a super three-and-d wing. They also talk about what has been the key to JJ Redick's success this season.

LOWDOWN: Anthony recaps the Lakers' seventh-straight win, marvels at LeBron James and Luka Doncic, laughs at Shake Milton's incredible plus-minus and celebrates other role players who helped make that win happen.

FULL: Anthony and Raj marvel at the amount of margin of error the Lakers now get to work with because of Luka Doncic and LeBron James. In this case, the Lakers beat the Pelicans handily without two starters. They recap the game, discuss Jeanie Buss' not-so-great comments about Anthony Davis and the trade and wrap with a few questions from the live audience.

PART ONE: Anthony and Raj recap the Lakers' seventh-straight win but mostly giggling like idiots about what LeBron James and Luka Doncic can do together.