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00:00I'm Jill Painter-Lopez for Sports Illustrated, joined by Melissa Roland.
00:06And Melissa, Jared Dudley has always been vocal, and especially during the pandemic.
00:11Even though he doesn't play a lot on the floor, he certainly is making an impact.
00:15How is he doing that?
00:16Well, it's interesting because Jared Dudley obviously is not the superstar.
00:22He doesn't get a ton of minutes, but his impact on the team is huge.
00:26And in a recent conference call with Alex Caruso, he was talking about how Jared Dudley
00:31and LeBron James have been the two most important voices on the team in keeping their group
00:36chat message going and keeping everybody talking, keeping everybody together.
00:41Obviously the Lakers, one of their biggest assets is their chemistry.
00:46And obviously they've been apart now for the last nearly four months because of the COVID-19
00:50pandemic.
00:51So Jared Dudley has taken it upon himself to keep the guys together.
00:55He's a savvy veteran who knows how to keep chemistry going.
00:59And he's also taken it upon himself to talk to a lot of the newer guys in the league to
01:04help them navigate everything that we've been going through over the last four months.
01:08He's been a voice of reason and he's been somebody who everybody on the team could lean
01:12on.
01:13And he can certainly have the stature to get into a Twitter beef with Patrick Beverly as
01:16well.