The NBA will officially announce its return Thursday, as 22 teams will head to Orlando in July to complete the 2019-20 regular season. And yet, many of the NBA's athletes are otherwise occupied at the moment, taking part in the protests against police brutality throughout the country. Sabreena and Anthony discuss how the Lakers players, and others around the league, have risen to the moment, and also how the NBA's return can both spotlight and distract from the message of the protests. Learn mor...
Jun 04, 2020•36 min
NBA general managers are reportedly in favor of a play-in playoff tournament once the season resumes. What does that change for the Lakers, if anything? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 29, 2020•58 min
As the NBA moves closer towards resuming its season, so too do other pro sports leagues in the U.S. Sabreena and Anthony discuss how the NBA's path towards a restart has compared to other leagues, specifically the NHL, NFL, and MLB. They go over why the relationship between the players and the league office in the NBA is so much more harmonious than in other leagues and identify what concerns the NBA still should have about its Orlando plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
May 28, 2020•43 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla dissect all the proposed plans for the NBA's return. And which plan would benefit the Lakers the most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2020•41 min
Jacob and Christian ranked the players who have the most potential to swing a playoff game or series for the Lakers in today's episode of "Can U Dig It?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The NBA, more specifically Jared Dudley, released some interesting news Wednesday about how the league will potentially resume its season. The "bubble" plan that has been floated for the past few weeks isn't as impenetrable of a bubble as we once thought, and that means Sabreena and Anthony have questions about the NBA's plans moving forward. They also have loads of questions about what in the world Spencer Dinwiddie was thinking. It's been a strange week for the league. Learn more about your ad...
May 21, 2020•42 min
Kobe Bryant is expected to get a documentary in the style of "The Last Dance" somewhere down the line. What might that look like? Harrison and Christian try to piece it together on today's episode of "Lakers, Explained." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 19, 2020•48 min
In this episode, Anthony and Jas kick things off by discussing what the NBA will look like if the league decides to finish the 2019-20 season. Then, the guys get into how the Lakers will have an advantage over other teams if the league returns from the coronavrius hiatus. Following the break, Anthony and Jas get into ESPN's documentary, "The Last Dance," and share their opinions on what made the series so enjoyable. Anthony and Jas also discuss Michael Jordan's greatness and debate how he would ...
May 18, 2020•38 min
Almost everything went wrong for the Lakers in the 2012-13 season, and the offseason that followed, but what if everything — or just one thing — went right? Would the Lakers have 17 championships? Would Dwight Howard still leave for the Houston Rockets in free agency? We talk about that and more in this week's episode of "Can U Dig It?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com...
May 15, 2020•40 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about the news of the NBA Players Union polling players to see whether or not they want to return. Plus they talk about LeBron James & Anthony Davis being a handful of players that have expressed their desire to play again this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://po...
May 13, 2020•28 min
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May 12, 2020•46 min
Yesterday, as part of SB Nation’s “Marvel Week,” Anthony Irwin and Sabreena Merchant compared various members of the Lakers to their Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) counterparts. On Friday’s episode of “Can U Dig It?”, a podcast by Silver Screen and Roll, Christian Rivas and his normal co-host Jacob Rude continued the fun by finding which Marvel villains best match up with the Lakers’ own extensive rogues gallery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more...
May 08, 2020•59 min
In honor of Marvel Theme Week at SB Nation, Sabreena and Anthony assign Marvel superhero analogs to Lakers on the current roster. They consider personality, character arcs, and physical build, among other factors, to determine which Marvel characters match best with each Laker. Sabreena and Anthony each came at this exercise independently, so they have some varied answers and have to make their case for their picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn mo...
May 07, 2020•41 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about what season of the Lakers they'd like to get the Last Dance treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 05, 2020•28 min
In this episode, Anthony and Jas breakdown ESPN's latest two episodes of The Last Dance. To kick things off, the guys discuss how competitive Michael Jordan was during his NBA days and why that separated him from the crowd. Then, Anthony and Jas compare trash talking and the combativeness of NBA teams from the 90s to today. The guys discuss how it would be if LeBron James and Kevin Durant played with the same edge as the players from 20 years ago. Following that, they talk about how they felt ab...
May 04, 2020•52 min
On today's episode of "Can U Dig It?", Christian and Jacob go over the latest rumors surrounding the highly-anticipated return of the NBA season. While there's no set return date yet, the expectation is that the 2019-20 season will end with a champion, and LeBron James is hoping it's the Lakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad c...
May 01, 2020•32 min
Sabreena and Anthony start by recapping the news of the week, including the opening of practice facilities and the Lakers -- a franchise valued at $4.4 billion -- applying for a small business loan, and they try to make sense of the path the league is taking towards potentially resuming operations for the 2019-20 season. Then, they focus on the larger question of how the NBA will be fundamentally altered moving forward due to the shutdown. Sabreena and Anthony are interested in how the pandemic ...
Apr 30, 2020•34 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla on the NBA opening up team facilities May 8th. The Lakers working with L.A. County Health Officials to open their facility early. And the guys talk about what games they'd would have love to be at live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2020•38 min
With the NBA regular season likely finished, Jacob and Christian handed out the first-ever Screenie Awards, or "The Screenies," to the players on the Lakers' for things both good and bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 24, 2020•51 min
Anthony and Sabreena are inspired by two recent pieces of pop culture - "The Last Dance" and Ethan Strauss's "The Victory Machine" - to discuss a topic of significant interest to Lakers fans: dynasties. Namely, they are intrigued as to why the dynasties depicted all seem so miserable. If winning is supposed to cure everything, why is it that the teams that win the most have the least fun? The two of them go through the challenges that these successful teams face, and also consider a particular L...
Apr 23, 2020•35 min
Harrison and Christian needed some ideas for things to talk about, and the "Lakers, Explained" listeners delivered. They discussed whether this current Lakers team could beat the Kobe-Pau version, their picks for end of year awards and hatched a plot to cyberbully Harrison's fiancee into letting him name their theoretical child. All that and more on their latest episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practic...
Apr 21, 2020•56 min
In this episode, Anthony and Jas kick things off by discussing what coronavirus pandemic and the effect it is having on society as a whole. Next, the guys get into when they're expecting the NBA to be back and how the league should proceed with the scheduling of games. Following that, Anthony and Jas discuss the first two episodes of "The Last Dance' documentary and what memories they have of the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan growing up. The guys then get into their thoughts on how Kobe Bryan...
Apr 20, 2020•41 min
As children of the 90s, Jacob and Christian weren't able to experience the Showtime Lakers, however, through the power of the internet, they did the next best thing and re-watched a game — specifically Game 6 of the 1987 Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Sabreena and Anthony discuss three really good Lakers teams that didn’t win a championship: the 1961-62 Elgin Baylor/Jerry West team, the 1997-98 pre-Phil Jackson Shaq Lakers, and the 2012-13 “Now This Is Going To Be Fun” Lakers. The two of them take a deep dive down memory lane to go through what made these teams great, but also the specific challenges they faced in those seasons that prevented them from winning a championship. They also talk about what changes each of those teams made to event...
Apr 16, 2020•37 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla pretend the season ended. What did the Lakers get right, what did the Lakers do wrong and what should they fix for next season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 15, 2020•33 min
As of Monday night, it’s been four years since Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in an unforgettable performance on his final night as a Laker. That little anniversary seemed like as good of a reason as any for hosts Harrison Faigen and Christian Rivas to rewind and reconsider that game for their latest episode of “Lakers, Explained,” a podcast by Silver Screen and Roll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices vi...
Apr 14, 2020•50 min
It has officially been one month since the NBA began its suspension, and Sabreena and Anthony discuss whether or not they think there will be any more basketball in the 2019-20 season. They go through the factors the league has to consider in terms of resuming play, specifically postseason play, and consider what the ramifications of any decision would be for next year. Then, they focus on how this Lakers season will be viewed historically depending on if the NBA comes back, and how the Lakers s...
Apr 09, 2020•44 min
Alex Padilla and Alex Regla talk about the latest with the NBA during the COVD-19 pandemic. Plus this week they compare current Lakers to WWE wrestlers old and new! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 07, 2020•37 min
Have you ever wanted to build the best player possible using attributes from the best Lakers ever? Harrison and Christian have, and on their latest episode of "Lakers, Explained," they try to use skills from legends of the past to create the best Frankenstein'd version of a star player they can. Whose player is better? Listen and decide for yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www...
Apr 07, 2020•47 min
In this episode, Jas is joined by Israeli NBA analyst Eran Soroka. To kick things off, they discuss Kobe Bryant's induction into the Hall of Fame and what it means for his legacy. Eran and Jas also talk about not having the opportunity to hear Kobe's acceptance speech and how amazing it would have been. Then, the guys get into what Kobe's impact was on the game from a global perspective and how the second part of his career was his redemption. Following that, Eran and Jas talk about how the Lake...
Apr 05, 2020•29 min
