Los Angeles Lakers
Organization
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team in the NBA, based in Los Angeles, California, and one of the league’s most successful and recognizable franchises.
48 episodes featuring Los Angeles Lakers
The Bill Simmons Podcast
NFL uncertainty collides with Boston sports despair
The episode connects early-season NFL volatility, NBA forecasting, and Boston’s roster and leadership questions across football, basketball, and baseball.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2h 31m
Pablo Torre Finds Out
AI valuations and political power fuel a culture of scams
The episode links speculative finance, elite influence, and religious exploitation to a broader crisis of accountability and public trust.
Oct 1, 2026 · 45 min
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Tomlin’s TV audition exposes sports media’s development problem
The episode connects NBA roster economics and expansion with a broader question about whether sports television still develops distinctive analysts and writers.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2h 5m
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Boingo payments widen the Clippers’ Kawhi investigation
The episode examines whether sponsor payments tied to Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers could raise securities-disclosure concerns beyond the NBA’s salary-cap findings.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 2m
House of Troy
USC’s celebrity dynasty collapses under pressure
The episode traces how USC’s pursuit of an unprecedented third straight title exposed the personal and institutional costs of its football empire.
Sep 29, 2026 · 48 min
Pardon My Take
Ari Emanuel makes the case for live sports as entertainment’s moat
The episode pairs a full NFL Week 3 betting board with a wide-ranging debate over ambition, media disruption, sports ownership, and fan costs.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3h 33m
THE ED MYLETT SHOW
Jesse Cole turns baseball into a fans-first experience
The conversation examines whether accessible pricing, human connection, and constant innovation can build a durable entertainment business without conventional marketing.
Sep 22, 2026 · 57 min
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Knicks’ title window meets an unpredictable East
The episode tests whether New York’s emerging contender can outlast a conference where health, contracts, depth, and aging stars could reorder the field.
Sep 22, 2026 · 2h 39m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Josh Allen strengthens Buffalo’s Super Bowl case
The episode tests whether Buffalo has finally built a complete contender around Josh Allen while surveying instability across the NFL and NBA.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 57m
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
Josh Allen’s dominance collides with football’s accountability debates
The episode connects an NFL blowout, ESPN’s standards and an escalating SEC rivalry to a broader argument about judgment, loyalty and responsibility.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 7m
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Stavros Halkias links private equity to everyday life
The conversation connects ownership, taxation, sports, and belonging to a broader question about how economic power shapes civic life.
Sep 16, 2026 · 52 min
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Baseball’s biggest bets collide with Clippers’ long rebuild
The episode connects two kinds of sports dysfunction: a Clippers franchise short on assets and an MLB season testing how teams, rules, and money shape competition.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2h 12m
Pardon My Take
Chiefs’ power game meets football’s next quarterback test
The episode connects Kansas City’s physical identity and evolving NFL tactics with the coaching and development questions facing young quarterbacks.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2h 27m
Acquired
Home Depot turned service into a retail moat
The episode shows how Home Depot preserved its founding values through operational upheaval, leadership failures, housing cycles, and the shift to omnichannel retail.
Sep 14, 2026 · 3h 35m
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Wachtell report exposes Clippers’ sponsor-payment questions
The episode tests what the league’s investigation established, what it left unresolved, and how accountability reaches Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard.
Sep 9, 2026 · 54 min
The Rewatchables
Talladega Nights makes the case for Ferrell’s comedy peak
The discussion tests why a 2006 NASCAR comedy remains unusually quotable, visually tangible, and structurally strong despite humor that has aged unevenly.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2h 8m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Allen’s résumé meets Mahomes’ comeback test
The quarterback debate turns on whether playoff results should outweigh regular-season dominance, while Kansas City’s recovery could reshape the NFL hierarchy.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1h 49m
PBD Podcast
Jobs, justice and the fault lines reshaping American politics
The episode connects economic policy, a divisive criminal case, corporate decline and Republican succession to a broader argument about accountability and social trust.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2h 25m
Pivot
Corporate deference collides with civic resilience
The discussion connects political intimidation, economic warning signs, local journalism, and media consolidation to the health of democratic institutions.
Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 7m
Morning Brew Daily
NBA punishes Clippers as AI food images unsettle diners
The episode connects institutional accountability, changing consumer instincts, and corporate cost-cutting across sports, travel, technology, and everyday life.
Sep 3, 2026 · 27 min
TBPN
AI’s next edge may be specialized data, not bigger models
The episode tests whether AI progress will be decided by benchmark scores or by trusted data, infrastructure, oversight, and distribution.
Sep 3, 2026 · 2h 26m
TBPN
NBA penalties put Ballmer’s Clippers future under scrutiny
The alleged compensation scheme tests the NBA’s salary-cap enforcement and could reshape the Clippers’ competitiveness, ownership, and reputation.
Sep 3, 2026 · 24 min
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
NBA punishment puts fan costs ahead of owner accountability
The episode examines whether the NBA protected franchise power while making Clippers fans pay through lost draft capital and weaker competitiveness.
Sep 3, 2026 · 57 min
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Barkley dissects Clippers dysfunction and the NBA’s next era
The conversation connects the Clippers’ punishment to broader questions about competitive integrity, roster building, aging stars, media careers, and the league’s future.
Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 42m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Taurasi and McShay test football futures and the WNBA’s next era
The episode connects high-stakes quarterback evaluations with a firsthand account of how women’s basketball has changed on court and off it.
Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 42m
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
Rams chase star power as Fever debate exposes team-culture fault lines
The episode tests whether celebrity-driven roster building and media narratives obscure the discipline, shared responsibility, and accountability required to build winning teams.
Aug 31, 2026 · 1h 1m
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
AI spending faces its trillion-dollar reality check
The episode tests whether extraordinary AI infrastructure spending can keep compounding while identifying companies positioned to benefit—or vulnerable when demand cools.
Aug 28, 2026 · 41 min
Louder with Crowder
Crowder argues bad statistics weaken immigration and trade cases
The episode examines how disputed figures can damage political arguments, then connects Canada’s trade policies to concerns about Chinese goods reaching the U.S. market.
Aug 27, 2026 · 1h 6m
Pod Save the World
Trump’s pressure campaigns collide with limits on power
The episode connects trade disputes, sanctions, censorship, authoritarianism, and Gaza to a broader question of what political pressure can actually achieve.
Aug 26, 2026 · 1h 42m
PBD Podcast
Privilege, party fractures and markets collide in a volatile political debate
The episode connects personal accountability, weakening party coalitions, labor-market uncertainty and investment fears into one argument about institutional trust.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2h 25m
Pivot
Mark Cuban targets healthcare middlemen and billionaire taxes
The conversation tests whether transparency, contract audits, and better-designed taxes can challenge entrenched corporate incentives without driving wealth and innovation elsewhere.
Aug 21, 2026 · 1h 20m
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
NFL and ESPN Recalculate Their Power Play
The episode connects changing television measurement to a broader struggle over the NFL’s cultural authority, ESPN’s talent strategy, and sports franchises’ obligations to stars.
Aug 20, 2026 · 56 min
The Joe Budden Podcast
Creators debate accountability, spectacle, and ambition
The episode tests where journalism, entertainment, and creator economics draw ethical lines when conflict becomes the business model.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3h 21m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Westbrook’s brilliance collides with the limits of heliocentric basketball
The episode uses Russell Westbrook’s career to examine how production, playoff impact, roster fit, and coaching are judged across changing sports eras.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2h 4m
The Compound and Friends
ETF issuers flood the market as investors chase new exposures
The ETF boom is reshaping investment products, fees, and access while leaving issuers to prove which themes can attract lasting assets.
Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 5m
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
AI IPO race tests growth-at-all-costs investing
The episode examines whether AI’s enormous infrastructure spending can produce durable profits before debt, valuations, and interconnected risks become constraints.
Aug 14, 2026 · 45 min
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Emails challenge Clippers’ account of Kawhi sponsorships
The documents raise questions about whether team-linked vendors helped structure compensation connected to Kawhi Leonard while the Clippers denied oversight.
Aug 14, 2026 · 60 min
Bloomberg Tech
AI’s growth story collides with compute costs and bubble fears
The episode tests whether extraordinary AI revenue and investment can produce durable returns while reshaping labor, media, and technology markets.
Aug 14, 2026 · 54 min
Pardon My Take
Jayden Daniels dispute sparks debate over sports promises
The episode uses Daniels’s clash with LSU to examine how schools handle athletes’ names, numbers, trophies, and broken commitments.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2h 15m
Morning Brew Daily
Lakers sale puts venture capital deeper into sports
The episode connects a record-setting sports deal with cooling inflation, AI-generated entertainment, private equity pressure, and shifting travel habits.
Aug 13, 2026 · 28 min
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
Texas race, Ecuador boat strikes and sports finance collide
The episode connects electoral uncertainty, alleged state violence and private capital’s expanding influence over public-facing institutions.
Aug 13, 2026 · 60 min
Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition
Trump revives economic pressure as Iran talks remain deadlocked
The episode connects the Iran standoff to energy, markets, diplomacy, and wider geopolitical risks while tracking a devastating earthquake and a record sports sale.
Aug 13, 2026 · 21 min
WSJ What’s News
Lakers sale sets new benchmark for sports valuations
The episode connects a record sports-team sale with cooling inflation, Fed policy uncertainty, and consumer risks in ticket resale.
Aug 12, 2026 · 11 min
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Simmons ranks youth sports through a parent’s eyes
The episode connects NBA ownership pressures with a practical debate over which youth sports best balance cost, safety, opportunity, and family life.
Aug 12, 2026 · 1h 55m
The Big Picture
Patrick Fischler explains the long game of character acting
The episode pairs a candid account of Hollywood’s instability with a wide-ranging argument about how audiences, critics, and actors sustain movie culture.
Aug 11, 2026 · 2h 40m
The Bill Simmons Podcast
LeBron’s Philadelphia arrival ends the Process debate
The episode turns a sprawling sports mailbag into a question about legacy, franchise direction, and whether Philadelphia’s long rebuild has finally run its course.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2h 28m
Pardon My Take
Florio maps the NFL’s pressure points before kickoff
The conversation tests which quarterback battles, injuries, coaching questions, and roster decisions could reshape the coming NFL season.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2h 20m
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
Whitlock’s panel debates whether Clark can lead Indiana
The discussion tests whether Indiana’s problems reflect Caitlin Clark’s leadership and defense, or a deeper gap in coaching, depth, and team structure.
Aug 3, 2026 · 1h 25m