Lakers Lounge

JJ Redick has some hard-line rules for players who get consistent minutes for him. Anthony thinks there are ways this roster lines up with those rules but some that don't. Redick has grown as a coach to this point and that will have to continue.

Anthony explains that, even while JJ Redick may have been hired for some of the wrong reasons, he thinks Redick has real staying power -- making him a sort of Lakers Ted Lasso. From there, he gives his prediction for Redick's season and answers a couple questions from the live audience.

Anthony updates you on the Lakers' ownership battles and the role Adam Silver might now play in them. He also noticed ESPN dipping into a familiar source for drudging up offseason content intrigue. He answers from questions from Twitter and the live audience and calls it a day.

Anthony reacts to the notion that Adam Silver is getting involved in the Lakers ownership fight and does a little reporting of his own on the matter.

As part of the Q&A, a listener was curious whether all the change atop the organization will affect how the front office approaches this upcoming season. Anthony also answers a question about whether he thinks this is a championship-level roster right now and the role Austin Reaves plays in that analysis.

The Peyton Watson trade helps the Lakers in more ways than one, even if they would've loved to land him. Anthony discusses that situation, then dives into an iTunes mailbag that he desperately needed to address. He wraps with a Q&A that touches on some really fun topics, including his stupid Vikings.

Anthony sifts through the dust settling after the Nuggets salary dumped Peyton Watson and discusses the Lakers' impact on Denver's approach to that situation as well as some of the downstream effects of their decision to trade Watson when they did.

Anthony missed a few questions in the iTunes mailbag and, in reading back, noticed a trend in how fans felt about the offseason initially and how they've bought into the moves over the course of the last couple months. From there, he actually answers all the questions he missed.

No one considered quitting the Lakers when Mark Walter bought the Lakers, and his investment portfolio has a few things in common with the new owners some fans say they can't support. Anthony explains why he personally is going to continue rooting for the Lakers and why he honestly won't feel that conflicted doing so.

Anthony looks at things through his prism. Harrison and he see things pretty similarly. So, Anthony brings in Raj to get a better sense of what a Lakers fan might feel about these billionaires fighting over a team people genuinely care about, generationally.

The Lakers have changed ownership three times in the last year or so. This time has come with an extra side of billionaire drama. You know how Anthony feels about this, but how about Raj, who looks at things through a very different prism?

The Lakers have changed hands frequently enough that even die-hard fans like Raj are looking at the team like a distressed asset.

"That is NOT YOUR GIRL."

Jeanie Buss is fighting back against her siblings over their decision to sell the remaining stake in the Lakers and arguing that only she understands what is best for the Lakers. Anthony... doesn't quite see it that way. He explains how we got here, where he'd like to go and the question that he keeps running into.

Anthony lays out the painstaking steps taken by all involved to eventually arrive at this clusterbleep in an effort to explain why he doesn't think any of this has ever been about what is best for the Lakers.

The Lakers are mere weeks from training camp. Luka's own minicamp starts in days. Anthony doesn't think dragging out litigation with siblings over the ability to run the team is the move if Jeanie Buss wants to keep telling us all she cares about is what's best for the team.

Anthony and Harrison react to the late shitstorm this summer has put all of us through.

Anthony and Harrison react to the end of the Buss-Lakers era. Anthony draws from the Game of Thrones universe to explain how fans feel about all this.

It's hard to hire people when they don't know who their boss might be, turns out.