Lakers Lounge

PART TWO: Anthony and Raj enjoy the fact that Luka and LeBron offer such a high floor that the Lakers can basically take case of business almost no matter who is available. Then, they dive into a conversation about Jeanie Buss' unfortunate comments about Anthony Davis and the trade.

PART THREE: The guys pick up the conversation about Jeanie Buss' comments and Anthony issues a warning. Don't take too long a victory lap right now, with so much work left to do. They wrap with a couple questions from the live audience.

LOWDOWN: Anthony rolls through the Lakers' injury situations, then explains (with some help from Eric Pincus) how the Lakers actually can sign Jordan Goodwin and Trey Jemison.

FULL: Anthony offers updates on Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura ahead of the Lakers' matchup Tuesday against the Pelicans. From there, he dives into the various mailbags to answer as many questions as he could. Listeners wanted to know about the ways teams might be able to defend the Lakers, what the Lakers' options are in terms of converting Jordan Goodwin and Trey Jemison and more.

PART ONE: Anthony opens with an explainer on the Lakers' injuries, then dives into the mailbag, where listeners are wondering about the team's options with Trey Jemison and Jordan Goodwin.

PART TWO: Anthony breaks down the optimal bracket to get the Lakers to the finals. It's starting to feel like the Lakers might have a date with the Celtics in June...

LOWDOWN: Anthony recaps the Lakers' latest win over the Clippers, discusses a couple individual performances, and marvels at the fact that the Lakers can still clearly get quite a bit better in short order.

FULL: Anthony rides solo for this one with Raj covering the South Bay Lakers. For the second time in three days, the Lakers beat the Clippers and held them to 102 points. Anthony talks about the game, the defense and all of that stuff but spends some extra time on how happy Luka Doncic is starting to look when asked about being a Laker.

PART ONE: Before analyzing the game, Anthony offers up what he thinks is the biggest story coming out of this game. Luka Doncic appears to love being a Laker. Given everything riding on the rest of this season and this summer, that's a HUGE development. From there, he dives into the Lakers' latest big win.

PART TWO: The Lakers picked up another great win, this time shorthanded against a Clippers team that REALLY wanted to win this one and it has Anthony feeling a certain way about their chances in the playoffs.

Anthon recaps the Lakers picking up a big win over the Clippers, even if it seems to have cost Austin Reaves.

LOWDOWN: The Lakers are clearly still figuring things out on offense and, in the meantime, are defending about as well as anyone can hope. Anthony discusses the process of winning ugly and watching LeBron James and Austin Reaves continue to carry things as Luka Doncic gets comfortable.

FULL: Anthony and Raj break down that Lakers win over the Timberwolves. They talk about refereeing, Anthony Edwards' immaturity, and all kinds of stuff adjacent to the game, then dive into the parts of it that they enjoyed. Watching LeBron James, Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic figure this out and win at the same time has been fun.

PART ONE: The guys dive into a fun conversation about Anthony Edwards' maturity level and how the Wolves need more from him. He also had some interesting comments about being the face of the league that Anthony thinks are disingenuous. The guys talk that, then discuss the Lakers' ugly win over Minnesota.

PART TWO: The guys pick back up on what they were talking about with Anthony Edwards not wanting to be the face of the league with the help of LeBron James, who had thoughts about it after the game.

LOWDOWN: Anthony had to get something off his chest about all these leaks about Luka Doncic after the fact that only make the Mavericks look small and petty on top of already being stupid enough to trade Luka Doncic.

FULL: Anthony welcomes old friend Adam Mares back into The Lounge to talk about the Lakers-Nuggets rivalry now with Anthony Davis swapped out for Luka Doncic. The Lakers have never looked as confident during the LeBron James era against the Nuggets as they did last Saturday. Was that a one-off, or are people in Denver actually nervous about this matchup moving forward. From there, they dip back in...

PART ONE: Anthony and Adam discuss that game from last weekend in which the Lakers swarmed the Nuggets defensively and really threw them off their game. Was that the blueprint to change how those games have gone over the last few years, or was that a one-off result the Nuggets can adjust from?

PART TWO: After wrapping up the Lakers-Nuggets portion of the conversation, Anthony and Adam bring back a game they used to play on their old national show: Whoa! or Whoa...

FULL: Anthony and Raj break down an ugly win that highlighted some flaws, hammered home some strengths and featured all kinds of storylines as Luka Doncic took on his former team.

PART ONE: Anthony and Raj recap a game that highlighted a little bit of everything for a Lakers team clearly still figuring it out.

PART TWO: Anthony and Raj give it up for Austin Reaves, who somehow has figured out how to fit in the offense as either a primary, secondary or tertiary weapon. Anthony makes an insane comp that actually makes a lot of sense if you hear out the take.

PART THREE: Anthony and Raj wrapped up the show by taking questions from the live audience, who was somewhat rightfully correct in their concern for what happens to the Lakers offense when their role players aren't knocking down shots.

FULL: Anthony and Raj relive that win from Saturday and start by talking about how much both teams seem to really care about these matchups. From there, they get into the basketball aspects of this matchup to figure out what swung it from an endless string of losses to the blowout win we saw Saturday. Then, they discuss whether that approach can work against other teams as well.

PART ONE: Before getting into the x'o and o's of the matchup, Anthony and Raj discuss both teams clearly caring just a little more about the times they play each other. It's exactly the kind of thing the NBA needs more of.