What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins, Young Hollywood, The LA Lakers. Break it down. What's your pregame meal?

I usually do salmon. I do salmon. I do a little, uh, a little brown rice, a little broccoli.

And what's your ritual? You probably have it down to a science now.

I really don't have a ritual to be honest with you. I've never I've never really had one. Like if I'm tired, I'll go to sleep. If I'm not, you know, I'll stay up, watch some TV or something.

Speaking of sleeping, you only sleep like three or four hours. Is that true? How is that possible?

I don't know, it's a curse.

Looking forward, what's your mentality like?

Just, uh, just working hard, just getting ready for the next game, you know, we got a nice challenge ahead of ourselves, but, you know, I'm looking forward to the process.

And the last thing you think about before you go to bed at night?

Um, that depends on the night.

You guys have never really been in this spot before. How is that affecting the mentality of your team?

I mean, like I said, it's still, it's still a job. You still, we're in a situation where we're not in the eighth spot right now. You know, but we get the a chance to play for a playoff spot. So my job is basically playing for a playoff spot and to play for a championship, to come out this year number one and make all the, um, the Laker fans happy along with my teammates, that gotta be, uh, that's a great situation and what a great job. You know, uh, challenges and adversity come your way and uh, you know, you gotta step up to the challenge and everything is an opportunity for you to get better uh and improve the people uh what you can do and I think this is a great opportunity for our team uh to push through and and and recover from a spot where we're we're normally not used to being at.

So, how are you gonna motivate this team?

Well, I mean, they're motivated. Uh, you got to highly you know, they don't get here, they don't get to be the best in the world. Uh, you don't motivate Kobe Bryant. Uh, you try just to hang on and uh same with Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, all these guys, they they know what is at stake and uh they're uh they're ready to go.

When you came in, could you ever have predicted where you'd be right now?

No, but I didn't predict that Steve Nash was gonna be out eight weeks and Steve Blake wouldn't be here and Pau Gasol's out, you know. So, it seems like it's turned around a little bit and uh things are looking up a little bit.

Which of your teammates is always late to practice?

I'm I can't I can't snitch. I wasn't raised to snitch, so I can't say nothing. Uh, not too many guys to be like, we all mostly be here on time. Uh there's a few guys that you probably come in with uh a few minutes left on the clock and I think we all guilty of that, you know, some days we'll be right on time, some days you you make it right before film start, but everybody's here on time basically. Second guest: We've we've been pretty good. Uh, everybody usually gets on time. Um, I don't know uh even Kobe, you know, even though he takes a chopper to practice sometimes, he's still on time and uh Dwight with his driver, he doesn't drive himself, he still manages to make it on time, so everybody's pretty much here.

Alright, who's the messiest in the locker room then?

The rookie, definitely. The rookies, they don't they don't know when to clean up and things like that, so it's pretty bad. Second guest: If I had to choose one, maybe Meta, maybe. Just maybe 'cause he's just right next to me, so I see everything that that he puts on the ground. Third guest: Uh, messiest one, probably me, man, 'cause I I spend so much time in there, you know, I come in at night and shoot, I'm always here, so I'm always have like dirty laundry for Carlos to wash and got a bunch of shoes laying around, so I'm probably the messiest out there.

Anyone ever late to the plane?

Oh, one time we had Meta uh be late to the plane, but that's only 'cause he thought the time was uh an hour uh later than what it really was, so we was all waiting for him. Uh but like I said, it doesn't happen that much.

But you waited for him, that's good, you didn't take off and have him fend for himself.

Yeah, no, we called him and then let him know uh he thought it was 11:30, it was really 10:30. Um, so you know, he got there around like 11:00, it was all good. Second guest: Uh, late to the plane, it's always somebody different every time. Yeah, and uh it's not like they're like 30 minutes late but maybe, you know, five, two minutes late and uh it depends on the day or the game, you know, uh so we all guilty of that, I would say. I mean, I've been late to the plane myself, so uh all of us do it.

So, Darius, you're pretty much Kobe's little brother. What are some of the greatest lessons you're taking away from that friendship?

Um, you know, it's it's going on our second year now, but uh, you know, he's just taught me a lot just being around him, watching him, uh the way he approaches the game on and off the court. Um, you know, watching his work ethic and uh, you know, just his uh mental focus, uh really uh rubbed off on me.

How do you prep going into these games? Kobe likes the ice baths. Do you partake in the ice baths?

Yeah, I'm starting to become a fan of that. I used to hate ice before. I was really playing a lot of minutes, but uh, you know, I forced myself to get in there. The first three minutes is brutal but, you know, once your body get numb, it feels great afterwards.

What's the last thing you think about before you go to bed at night?

Uh, probably hoping that we play a little bit better or who won or lost in the league.

Thank you.