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Can U Dig It?: Comparing Lakers villains to Marvel ones May 08, 2020

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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

I Love Basketball: The Lakers Cinematic Universe May 07, 2020

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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

Talk-O Tuesday: Imagining "The Last Dance" Laker edition May 05, 2020

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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

The 30: Talking episodes 5 and 6 of ESPN's The Last Dance. Michael Jordan's competitiveness, comparing trash talking from the 90s to today and the MJ/Kobe brotherly love, with Anthony Irwin May 04, 2020

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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 about seeing Kobe Bryant on the documentary and the brotherly bond MJ and Kobe shared. To wrap things up Anthony and Jas share where the documentary could be better and discuss why Jordan should have spoken up more about social justice issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can U Dig It?: What is the status of the NBA season going into May? May 01, 2020

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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

I Love Basketball: How will the coronavirus shutdown affect the NBA moving forward? Apr 30, 2020

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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 will force the league to evaluate its practices regarding media availability, if stadiums will ever be as full as they were before the stoppage, and how the NBA can update its broadcast strategy without fans in attendance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Talk-O Tuesday: NBA opening up team facilities Apr 28, 2020

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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

Can U Dig It?: The inaugural Screenie awards, or "The Screenies" Apr 24, 2020

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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

I Love Basketball: Are dynasties doomed to be miserable? Apr 23, 2020

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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 Lakers team that provides a counterexample to this trend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lakers, Explained: Mailbag -- Could the current Lakers beat the 2010 team? Apr 21, 2020

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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

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