Pau Gasol explained his team’s excitement heading into Game 7, talked about the importance of helping Andrew Bynum get off to good starts and expressed clearly his desire to bring a maximum physical effort to the game.
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Kobe Bryant addressed the media after Saturday afternoon’s practice, displaying a game-ready focus in describing what his team needs to do on Sunday starting at 12:30 p.m.
Another podcast to get you through the next couple hours until tipoff. This time we talk about today’s shootaround and how it pertains to tonight’s Game 6. We also talk about the Nuggets closing out the Mavs, the Magic/Celtics series and I come up with a new name for one of America’s favorite shows (…which really is one of my best ideas ever).
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
Lakers radio voice Spero Dedes joined us to talk about in-air debates with Lakers.com, L.A.’s 2-2 series with the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland and Denver hype.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
Generally you’re privy only to the basketball (and pop culture) musings of Ty Nowell and Mike Trudell, but this time they brought in an actual expert to talk about L.A.’s suddenly hot matchup with Houston: Mychal Thompson.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
We spent nearly a half hour with Rockets.com’s Jason Friedman to discuss how and why things happened as they did in Game 1, went over how both teams are approaching Game 2, looked at specific matchups on the court and more in our ongoing Playoff Podcast series.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
Second round talk on the Playoff Podcast today. We go over the Lakers matchup with the Rockets that kicks off tonight at STAPLES Center, check in with the other three series and get to some TV talk.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
Rockets.com’s Jason Friedman joined us to break down the second round matchup between the Lakers and Rockets, covering Houston’s first round triumph over Portland, how Yao and Co. must deal with L.A.’s length and depth, Houston’s mental state heading into L.A. and why he’s being forced to shave his head Von Wafer style.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
The Lakers finally have a second round opponent and we’ve got another podcast. Today we knock out some Houston talk, go into great detail about the Bulls/Celtics game and get some quotes of the day taken care of.
As always, listen below or check out Playoff Central for everything else you need to know about this series.
On his way out of the practice facility, we caught up with Luke Walton to see how his ankle is feeling almost a week after he partially tore the deltoid ligament in his left ankle.
“I’m feeling really good,” he said. “I’m excited with how well my ankle’s responding and how much better it feels from day-to-day*.”
*Listen for yourself with the audio at the bottom of this post.
You did hear the word “absolutely” in there, though a specific date is (as always) not available. Nonetheless, Phil Jackson weighed in on Walton’s situation with this post-practice comment: “He’s happy with (his progress). Luke looks like he’s going to be a player who’s going to play in this next series, for sure.”
It was good ankle news all around in El Segundo, as Trevor Ariza called his a non issue, while even Sun Yue seemed fully recovered from his ankle sprain from a few weeks back.
Meanwhile, the Lakers will take Friday off, and resume practice on Saturday.
