Lakers Lounge

The Lakers are heading into the season close enough to the tax level that Anthony wonders if it was done on purpose. If so, how would you feel about a team that was just four wins from a championship series being tax conscious? Does it matter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Friend of the show Jorge Sedano (ESPN) stops by to gives us his scouting report on Gabe Vincent, formerly of his Miami Heat. He and Anthony really like what Vincent brings to the table on and off the court. They also discuss how they think LeBron James has felt about this offseason. Finally, they get into some of this Damian Lillard-to-Miami stuff that feels like it has an inevitable endpoint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony goes through this Lakers offseason, signing by signing, to evaluate the roster as a whole. This one's a doozie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony is joined by Aaron and Raj to recap a really fun first day of free agency. Gabe Vincent and Taurean Prince are the big new additions. Rui Hachimura is back. Austin Reaves and D'Angelo Russell aren't, yet, but could be on their way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony went live on youtube to preview free agency. Any name that has kind of been linked to the Lakers was brought up. He also put forth a scenario where the Lakers can recoup some flexibility if they don't land Bruce Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Looks like they're going the NTMLE route, which opens up their options this free agency. Anthony details what that would look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Lakers have a couple HUGE decisions to make today, so Aaron and Anthony discuss what's at stake, what the decision they make might mean, and the various paths ahead of them they might be looking at. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony and Aaron kick of the day with their typical nonsense but do arrive at a story that Anthony thinks might finally get people to care about journalism, as the lack of integrity might have cost a lot of people a lot of money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After weeks and weeks of wandering through the desert of Runitback, the Lakers finally gave Anthony something to talk about and, boy, is it a fun subject. The Lakers are reportedly interested in Bruce Brown, have some confidence they could land him, and have a pathway to doing so. But, because Anthony is who he is, he had to ask if this is worth all it could cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jovan Buha of The Athletic joins the show again to offer up the latest on what he's heard about this Lakers offseason. Sounds like they're still focused on running last year's team back, but it's also fair to ask if they should. He and Anthony discuss the futures of D'Angelo Russell, Lonnie Walker IV, Mo Bamba and Malik Beasley. They wrap with a conversation about how much sense it makes to run back a team that got swept out of the conference finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jason Timpf of The Volume finally makes his Lounge debut to discuss the wide open west. He and Anthony put together a series of tiers they think the conference can fall in to eventually arrive at whether they think Denver can be caught this summer. In crazier news, both guys might actually like the offseason the Lakers are having. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony welcomes Sean Highkin (Rose Garden Report) to discuss everything going on with Damian Lillard. Everything. All of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Collins was finally traded. The return... woof. Anthony extrapolates that out to a pretty dull role player trade market thus far and explains why he doesn't think this is the beginning of some larger fire sale from Atlanta. He quickly gives some Damian Lillard thoughts because there aren't enough of those out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan Woike of the L.A. Times stops by the show to discuss the offseason the Lakers have had thus far and them continuing to signal publicly and privately that they're likely running most of last year's roster back. What would that look like? What tweaks could be made? And what is the biggest lie a source has ever told him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a mailbag Monday and Anthony had a ton of questions to get to, including some on the NBA at-large and whether the league would be in a better place had more markets won than to this point, D'Angelo Russell's market, the Lakers' young core and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices