Laker Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: `We Want To Fight For What’s Ours’

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00:00 I'm Melissa Rowland with Sports Illustrated and we're here with Jill Painter-Lopez.

00:06 Now Jill, KCP recently went on Spectrum and discussed how anxious he is to get back on

00:12 the court.

00:13 What did he say?

00:14 Well Melissa, he had some strong words and pretty neat coming from a guy we haven't heard

00:19 a lot from during the pandemic, but he said, "We want to fight for what's ours."

00:23 He told Chris McGee that.

00:25 And obviously he thinks the Lakers, as do everyone, have a great chance to win the NBA

00:30 championship, but he called it "ours."

00:32 So that was pretty interesting.

00:33 He said he's in Atlanta right now.

00:35 He spent most of the pandemic with his family in Los Angeles, but in early May, he went

00:40 back to his Atlanta home and he said, "I'm ready to get on a plane right now and head

00:43 back to LA to resume the season."

00:46 So there's a lot of guys out there, of course, who are not ready.

00:49 They're not ready to go back to the practice facilities.

00:52 They're not ready to go away from their families yet.

00:56 So you have a couple of different groups of guys, but KCP is one of those guys that wants

00:59 to get back to it and try and help the Lakers win what would be their first championship

01:04 since 2010.

01:05 He's ready and he's not mincing words.

01:08 I like it.