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Turns out Special Agent Nick Torres is a horse whisperer. We spoke with Wilmer Valderrama about his character’s hidden talent, revealed in tonight’s trip-to-Texas episode, and how it relates to the actor’s real life in the latest installment of NCIS: Case Closed , our weekly aftershow.

“I’ve been a horse fanatic since I was a little boy. I grew up in Venezuela riding horses my whole life since I was very, very little. So having an opportunity to just get back in the saddle, if you will, was very exciting,” Valderrama told us.

It’s just a warm-up for the horsemanship Valderrama’s tackling next. “I’m going to start training for some really complex riding very soon for other things and other dreams of mine, as you can imagine what I’m talking about,” says the actor, who is set to star in the Disney+ reimagining of Zorro . “The funniest joke about it was that the horse that was my stunt horse, its name was Zorro! We were like, what the hell just happened here? My worlds were colliding. So it was like these signs that tell you that something’s happening for a reason.”

'NCIS' Season 21 New Finale Details May Be Bad News for Palmer & Knight's Relationship

That upcoming project won’t require Torres to leave the bullpen. Valderrama has no plans to leave NCIS , saying, “ NCIS has been and will be my home for a while.” The actor is especially excited for what’s coming up next for Torres and his colleague Knight ( Katrina Law ), whose matching love of risk-taking and easy banter make for great teamwork, as seen in tonight’s episode. (We love so many of the duo’s moments together!)

“We are continuing to cultivate that relationship between Torres and Knight,” Valderrama says. “Torres is going to be very instrumental in the rebirth of Special Agent Knight. And I can’t tell you much more because the finale is going to be very definitive and it’s going to do a reconstruction and deconstruction of what you think you knew about her. And eventually, Torres will take a different role. Torres might end up being a major influence on her in that next chapter. The season finale is going to dictate a lot of what’s going to be dynamically between these two for next year.”

Watch the video above to hear more from Valderrama on Knight and Torres, the episode’s Yellowstone vibes, and what line was ad-libbed. Come back every week to hear from the people who make the show. Next time, we’ll discuss the season finale with Brian Dietzen .

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The annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is Friday, February 16 through Monday, February 19. The GBBC was one of the first online projects to collect information on wild birds and was also instrumental in the creation of eBird back in 2002. Now there are more ways than ever to participate and share your love of birds ! Find a GBBC bird outing near you on this community map .

If you’re new to birding, participate with Merlin : beginning bird admirers can participate in the GBBC using Merlin Bird ID —simply identify birds and save them with the app anytime February 16-19.

If you’re already eBirding, participate with eBird : go birding for at least 15 minutes anytime February 16-19, count all the birds you see or hear, and enter your observations via the GBBC website or eBird Mobile app . If you haven’t used eBird since the last GBBC, take the free eBird Essentials course for a refresher.

Below are some additional details about Great Backyard Bird Count and how to get involved.

Connect and celebrate

The 2024 GBBC encourages you to spend time in your favorite places watching birds—and tell us about them! GBBC is a great opportunity to recognize these special places and share them with others.

Do you have a friend or family member you think might be interested in birds? GBBC is your chance to spark a new passion. Encourage loved ones to observe the birds around them during GBBC weekend as well. They can participate in GBBC by using Merlin Bird ID to identify species and even start their Life List right from the Merlin app .

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Unlike other global birding events, GBBC represents a chance to take a 4-day snapshot of bird populations around the world. Everyone who submits an eBird checklist or saves a bird with Merlin Bird ID from Feb 16-19 will be part of the global effort. Help us make the best, most detailed picture possible by following these tips:

Get to know your local birds. Jump-start your GBBC by familiarizing yourself with nearby birds. Merlin Bird ID allows you to build a custom list of birds you’re likely to spot during GBBC wherever you are, complete with photos, example sounds, and identification notes. Tips for exploring nearby birds with Merlin .

Count correctly . A lot of GBBC birding happens in backyards and often at feeders. Be sure to review our article on proper counting protocol at feeders .

Boost the scientific value of your lists . Try these reporting practices so that your checklists have the biggest impact for science: submit ‘complete’ checklists ; follow best listing practices ; and if a report is flagged, document it thoroughly .

Add photos. If you get nice photos during the GBBC weekend, or anytime, be sure to add your photos to your eBird checklist. This is of course especially important to help document rare birds that you may find. Learn more on how to upload your photos and sounds . We also invite you to share pictures of yourself, family, or friends celebrating the joy of birds during GBBC.

Build a GBBC Trip Report. eBird Trip Reports are a great way to summarize the birds you find during the 4-day GBBC period. Simply create a Trip Report for February 16-19. The observations you contribute through eBird and Merlin will be added to the report automatically. Add friends and family and their GBBC observations will be included in your report as well. Create eBird Trip Reports at any time before or after the count period—you can also make Trip Reports for past GBBCs !

How to follow the GBBC in Arkansas

Follow along with the Great Backyard Bird Count in Arkansas on eBird , where you can filter sightings and recent GBBC checklists by region. You can also submit data here as well. Your My eBird stats will be the same here as they would be anywhere in eBird. The key difference is the Explore page. The output here is tailored for the GBBC, so you can see the following:

• Explore GBBC data by location – Enter any location and see the species list, number of checklists and observers, recent visits, and other information restricted to this year’s count period.
• GBBC species maps – See where and how often each species is found around the world during GBBC. Zoom in and click on the points to see individual records.
• Arkansas Top 100 for GBBC 2024 – Check out the region-by-region contributions of individuals in terms of both number of checklists and number of species reported.

Drum up support in your local birding community by sharing a link to these statistics on your blog, Facebook page, listserv, or your favorite social media of choice.

And make sure to check in with the eBird Live Submissions Map this weekend. The hottest times to watch this map are likely to be 4-9 pm (Eastern Standard Time or GMT -5) on Sunday and Monday. Our best hour may be 5 pm (EST) on Sunday night when 3000+ checklists are usually submitted.

Have a great time at this year’s GBBC and thank you for being a part of the eBird Arkansas team!

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Once called “the Julia Child of Chinese cooking,” Fu Pei-Mei taught generations of Taiwanese people to cook through her long-running TV show and many cookbooks. King presents not just a biography of an indomitable woman, but a portrait of how cultures eat.

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Coming Home , by Brittney Griner and Michelle Burford

In February 2022, Griner — arriving in Russia to play basketball in the off-season — was detained by Russian authorities, who claimed she had hash oil in her luggage. The W.N.B.A. star spent 10 months in a women’s penal colony before she was freed in a prisoner swap; this is the story of her ordeal.

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Free and Equal , by Daniel Chandler

If liberal democracy is to survive as a form of government, it needs a complete rethink. So argues Chandler, a British economist and philosopher, in this rousing homage to the political philosopher John Rawls, whose “realistic utopia,” the book contends, provides a blueprint for a society premised on both individual freedom and true equality.

Shanghailanders , by Juli Min

Min’s debut novel is a complicated family story, told in reverse. The novel opens in 2040 with a family simmering with secrets and tensions, and then the story works its way backward to 2014, revealing how each person got to where they are.

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Whale Fall , by Elizabeth O’Connor

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How to survive the strains of middle-age marriage? The unnamed heroine of July’s comic novel plans a cross-country road trip, only to stop 30 minutes from home. There she lavishly redecorates a motel room and begins an odd, passionate but platonic affair with a younger man who works at a rental-car agency.

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Wallace, an award-winning journalist, turns a thoughtful lens on his own grapplings with sexuality, intermittent homelessness and life as the son of a Black single mother fighting to stay afloat. But bleakness is not the operative mode of this debut memoir; the book turns as often toward joy and self-discovery as it does hardship.

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Challenger , by Adam Higginbotham

The Challenger space shuttle disaster — in which millions of people watched, in real time, as the shuttle exploded, killing all on board — was a pivotal moment for American culture, and certainly its space program. Higginbotham, the author of “Midnight in Chernobyl,” tells the 1986 story in granular detail, using vivid reporting and new archival research to describe a true-life thriller with all-too-real consequences.

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Blue Ruin , by Hari Kunzru

A heady novelist with the instincts of a thriller writer, Kunzru brings his singular mix of dread and intrigue to his latest fiction, an intricate tale of artistic creation, greed and exploitation set in upstate New York under the specter of Covid.

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Fat Leonard , by Craig Whitlock

This is the story of a Malaysian high school dropout who bribed and extorted U.S. Navy personnel with gifts, favors and sex to make a steady profit as a military contractor servicing American ships in East Asia ports for inflated prices. As Whitlock, an investigative journalist for The Washington Post, makes clear, the bigger problem is that so many in the Navy decided to look the other way.

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Rebel Girl , by Kathleen Hanna

As the fiery front woman of the seminal alt-punk band Bikini Kill and later Le Tigre, Hanna was foundational to the ’90s riot-grrrl movement; she also famously inspired the title of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Her wide-ranging memoir offers a snapshot of that era, as well as the challenging childhood that shaped her.

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Skies of Thunder , by Caroline Alexander

When the Japanese military took control of a crucial road near the border of Burma in 1942, the Allies were left with no choice but to transport supplies to China by air over a dangerous stretch of the Himalayas. As the conflict drags on, Alexander matches immersive descriptions of perilous flights through blizzards and monsoons with the uneasy negotiations between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.

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Austin to Meet With Key Regional Allies on Upcoming Hawaii Trip

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III will meet with key regional allies this week as he travels to Hawaii to preside over the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command change of command ceremony.  

Austin is expected to hold a series of engagements with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the Philippines, further marking what defense officials say is historic progress toward regional security integration.  

"Our partners across the region are drawing closer to each other, they're drawing closer to us and, together, we're doing more than ever to advance our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific," a senior defense official said today while previewing the engagements.   

On Thursday, Austin will meet with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Richard Marles. 

The meeting follows Australia's announcement last week of its new national defense strategy which commits to a 20% increase in defense spending over the next decade.  

The two leaders are expected to discuss U.S. force posture in Australia, as well as cooperation between the two countries to strengthen Australia's defense industrial base through the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordinance Enterprise – a long term initiative to bolster research, development and manufacturing of critical weapons systems.  

The defense official previewing the discussion underscored the close ties between the two officials, calling the Australian minister one of Austin's "most constant interlocutors, not just in the Indo-Pacific but around the world." 

Spotlight: Focus on Indo-Pacific

Austin is also scheduled to meet with Japanese Minister of Defense Kihara Minoru. The meeting follows Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official state visit to the U.S. last month where the two countries announced significant strides in strengthening defense cooperation. 

In a joint news conference during the visit, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S., Japan and Australia will partner in creating a networked air defense architecture. The U.S. and U.K. will also be standing up trilateral military exercises with Japan, among other deliverables.  

In the upcoming meeting, the two defense leaders are expected to expand upon discussions that include command and control, regional security, and the deepening cooperation between the U.S. and Japan on defense industrial and science and technology matters. 

In his meetings with his counterparts, Austin is also expected to discuss U.S. force posture in Australia and Japan and security throughout the region.  

Following the bilateral meetings with his counterparts, Austin will convene the 13th trilateral defense ministers' meeting among the U.S., Australia and Japan.  

Officials described an agenda focusing on a range of regional topics and how the three countries can further expand initiatives aimed at peace and security throughout the Indo-Pacific. 

The three leaders will also discuss cooperation on science and technology, and they are expected to sign a new trilateral agreement outlining cooperation on research, development, test and evaluation for strategic capabilities.  

The agreement encourages standardization and interoperability on defense technology and aims to make the countries' already strong ties on science and technology more efficient and cost effective. 

Austin will then host a quadrilateral meeting with the Philippines Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro and their Japanese and Australian counterparts.  

The meeting marks the second-ever joint meeting among the four countries' defense ministers. 

The defense leaders are expected to discuss ways to strengthen security among the four nations.  

These discussions come at a critical time for defense cooperation throughout the region, a defense official said, noting China's recent harassment of Philippine vessels operating in the South China Sea. 

"Japan and Australia have been some of our most vocal and staunchest allies in speaking up about the completely unacceptable nature of this behavior," the official said.  

The official also noted the Philippines' efforts to highlight China's concerning behavior throughout the region.  

"How we, as allies, not only operate together, but how we think about addressing the really worrisome operational behavior and coercion that we see taking place in a number of places across the region, is obviously a topic that we're going to focus on together," the official said.  

On Friday, Austin will preside over the Indo-Pacom change of command ceremony.  

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Austin will also recognize Aquilino's successor, Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, and the thousands of U.S. service members who serve in the region.  

Additionally, the secretary will have an opportunity to meet with the leaders of the Freely Associated States, which include the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

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‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’: the mind-bending acid house tour of London

George Georgiou gave British rave culture its smiley face. Now he’s placing plaques where hardcore clubbers sweated till dawn. Our writer joins the designer – and DJs Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway – on a face-melting trip

‘I remember this street being covered with hundreds of these all over the floor,” says George Georgiou, handing me an original smiley-face flyer he designed for the acid house club night Shoom. “I wish I’d picked them up because now they sell for up to a grand.”

The doorway we’re standing outside in London Bridge is one of many locations we’ll visit today, as Georgiou places acid house heritage plaques outside buildings that were once home to clubs such as Shoom, Raw and Sin. These locations are then tagged on an interactive acid house map on his website. We kick off the day 15 minutes’ walk away on Tooley Street, where the Special Branch club began life in 1984. It was here that resident DJs Nicky Holloway and Pete Tong lured suburban soul boys and Soho trendies to an old pub to get sweaty, while Gilles Peterson kept the footworkers busy by spinning jazz-funk in the other room.

In the 80s and 90s, Georgiou shaped the aesthetic of much of London’s underground dance nightlife. As well as flyers he designed membership cards, logos, posters, banners – entire nightclub aesthetics. “George was instrumental,” says Danny Rampling, who has turned up to see the plaque at the location of Shoom, a club he ran from 1987 to 1990 .

Also with us, when not sneaking off to the pub at any available opportunity, is Nicky Holloway, a DJ and promoter who, along with Rampling, was one of the “Ibiza four” . Together with Johnny Walker and Paul Oakenfold, they had their minds melted by hearing DJ Alfredo Fiorito on the island in 1987 – and came back to launch their own club nights. “Obviously you can’t recreate Ibiza in London, but we did bring some of that magic and spirit into the nightlife scene,” Rampling says.

While house music was already pumping loudly in Manchester, Sheffield and Nottingham, such clubs were seismic. “It was indisputably a benchmark for the rave scene,” says Rampling. “People would anticipate all week entering those hallowed doors down into a smoke and strobe-filled basement. It’s not about who was first, it’s about how it was done, and Shoom was a very creative, colourful club.”

That colour saturates the very expensive A5 card I hold in my hand. However, Georgiou was initially nonplussed by the smiley-face design Rampling requested. “I thought it was lame,” says Gerorgiou as we hop in a cab on our way to London’s oldest YMCA club, in whose basement Raw was once located. “It was a 60s thing. It was patches on people’s jeans from Woodstock days. I was like, ‘How do I make this horrible logo more interesting?’”

The answer was with “a cascade of tumbling pill smilies”, as Rampling describes it. The image became synonymous with the burgeoning rave scene and DJ Magazine later called it the best club flyer of all time. “Years later, people would come up to me and shake my hand and be like, ‘I used to make roaches out of that flyer,’” Georgiou says. “Then my work started appearing in books next to people I grew up admiring. Surreal.”

Georgiou was hired to do the decor for entrepreneur Oliver Peyton’s club Raw, which Holloway loved so much he then asked Georgiou to come and make over the pub where he was holding his night Special Branch. “We made a patchwork quilt of banners for every wall,” recalls Holloway. “We covered every inch of this boring looking pub. George turned it into a poptastic pop art venue. I’d take him over Keith Haring any day.”

Georgiou has meticulously archived his work, and a lot of it is about to be turned into NFTs. “This was the first ever flyer for Raw,” he says, handing me a pill capsule that contains a folded-up flyer inside. “Legend has it people were popping these.” He came up with plenty of other unconventional design ideas: “We handed out bananas with stickers on, little cacti, toys, even raw fish – little whitebait in a plastic bag with the club’s name on.”

Holloway and Georgiou worked on many other events together, including Sin at the Astoria, and nights at Holloway’s venue the Milk Bar – locations that are now non-existent, as we walk along a bustling Tottenham Court Road that once housed them – and one-off parties in places including the Natural History Museum. “We put strobes under the dinosaur,” laughs Holloway. “That particular week [in 1987], Walk the Dinosaur by Was (Not Was) was Top 10, so we’re all dancing around the dinosaur to that. We had projections everywhere – it was bonkers. Fast forward 20 years when I was DJing there for some corporate nonsense, and I had to get public liability insurance and do a risk assessment.”

Doing this trail of London’s old rave haunts, the changes to the buildings, and to people’s ability to access such spaces to throw such wild parties, feel very pronounced. “London always has something exciting going on, but it was a pivotal time in youth culture,” reflects Rampling. “Before things got commercialised it was all very DIY and organic. A real feeling of unity, hope, love and optimism.”

At that moment one of the large, bright yellow plaques comes loose from its wall, crashing and spinning down – mirroring the tumbling smiley face on the flyer – and just misses Rampling’s head. “That would have been quite the way to go out, wouldn’t it?” he laughs.

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NBA playoffs 2024: The future of LeBron James, Darvin Ham and the Lakers after their Game 5 exit

ANOTHER DISAPPOINTING LOSS weighed on Los Angeles Lakers coach Darvin Ham as he maneuvered Saturday night I-110 traffic to catch a redeye flight back to his personal basketball bliss.

It was March 16, and Ham's Lakers had just been handled at home by the Golden State Warriors for their third loss in their past five games. It was L.A.'s second straight defeat to a team it was battling with for playoff seeding -- the Sacramento Kings had controlled the action three nights earlier.

Ham's trip wasn't just taking him 2,300 miles east, but 20 years back in time. The Detroit Pistons were celebrating the franchise's 2004 championship team two decades after they beat Ham's current employer in an NBA Finals run still heralded as one of the most shocking in league history. Ham played in 76 games that year for the Pistons, including 22 in the playoffs and all four of Detroit's Finals wins.

Following a few hours of sleep at the Godfrey Hotel in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, Ham piled into a Sprinter van with a handful of his former teammates to head to Little Caesars Arena, where they were honored during a halftime ceremony.

"The pride of Saginaw, he brought the muscle, the power, both offensively and defensively," Pistons public address announcer John Mason bellowed into the microphone when it was Ham's turn to be introduced. "Say hello to dunkin' Daaaaaarvin Ham!"

A pyrotechnics display spit flames towards the arena roof as Ham took the court with Europe's "The Final Countdown" accompanying the intros, a throwback to the tune used when franchise icons such as Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton were announced in the starting lineup inside the old Palace of Auburn Hills.

But the timing of Ham's trip -- during the middle of a second straight challenging season with the Lakers -- made the song title applicable to what the 50-year-old coach was feeling back in L.A.

And all those former Pistons, whose shared proudest moment was upsetting the purple and gold, were now rallying around Ham.

"That's family," Ham told ESPN of his former Pistons teammates. "And so, [the message was], like, 'Don't worry about it. Keep pushing through, man.' You know, 'You did it last year [to reach the conference finals.]'

"'Your way works. Stick to your guns. Stick to your gut.' And 'Things are going to work themselves out.'"

But for a second straight season , the Denver Nuggets ' way worked better, this time in the first round of the 2024 playoffs , putting Ham's job very much in jeopardy, league sources told ESPN. The Lakers plan to conduct a postmortem on the season in the coming days before making a decision on Ham's future, a team source told ESPN.

A surprise trip to the conference finals a year ago was followed by a chaotic season, headlined by the Lakers' triumph in the league's inaugural in-season tournament but hampered by injuries and inconsistency en route to the Western Conference's seventh seed.

As the Lakers enter the offseason, the franchise finds itself in flux beyond deciding who will be roaming the sidelines next season. The future of LeBron James , who has a player option worth $51.4 million for 2024-25, remains a mystery. Sources told ESPN that, as recently as last week, team officials still did not know the league's all-time leading scorer's plans of what he will do with his contract.

But James' continued ability to stave off Father Time and Anthony Davis coming off perhaps his most complete season as a Laker, team sources said, has left L.A. believing that the championship window for this core has not closed, and if a different voice is needed to lead the group, the franchise will make the financial commitment to do so.

THE LAKERS STUMBLED out of the gates this season with an opening night loss -- to the champion Nuggets on their ring night -- leading to a 3-5 start. It was enough for Ham to switch around his starting lineup. He benched guard Austin Reaves on Nov. 10, replacing him with Cam Reddish in an attempt to shore up the Lakers' defense. A unit that had been such a staple during its 2023 postseason run was giving up 121.4 points per game in those early losses and ranked 19th in the league in defensive efficiency through Nov. 8.

The Lakers won 12 of their next 16 games, climbing to No. 4 in the Western Conference standings. The run culminated in Las Vegas, with the Lakers topping the Indiana Pacers in the NBA's inaugural in-season tournament.

All that winning came with a catch. The internal expectations to win the championship in June only heightened, while the fallout from shuffling his lineup -- first benching Reaves and later D'Angelo Russell  while sticking with Taurean Prince even after Jarred Vanderbilt had returned from a left heel injury that cost him the first 20 games of the season -- hurt Ham's reputation both inside and outside the organization, sources told ESPN.

"It's been extremely challenging," Ham said. "Everyone that's been in and out of the lineup. Being criticized for not having a consistent rotation when I don't have consistent healthy bodies. The thing that frustrates me, and I love this job, I love the pressure that comes with it, I've always been calm in the midst of chaos ... [But] common sense tends to go out the window when you talk about my job in particular.

"It's amazing how people just skip that core part of having a consistency with your lineup is all predicated on health and performance. If you're coaching a team and one of your starters is like 10 games in a row, just s---ing the bed, what are you going to do?"

James' 71 games played were his most as a Laker and Davis' 76 appearances were the most in his 12-year career, but the Lakers' role players filled the injury list. Vanderbilt (53 games), Reddish (34 games) and free agent signees Gabe Vincent (71 games) and Christian Wood (32 games) all missed significant time. The Lakers ranked sixth in the NBA in missed games due to injury.

Whatever momentum the Lakers built during their run to the in-season tournament had vanished; a 4-11 stretch afterward sent L.A. spiraling to 13th in the West.

It all wore on James, sources told ESPN. While James' right foot injury from last season had mostly healed -- the torn tendon he tried to play on being so draining he contemplated retirement last summer -- he was now managing a chronically sore left ankle.

But the team needed the oldest player in the league to continue shouldering the production in order to stay afloat in one of the most competitive Western Conference fields in years.

"It's just been doing a lot of extra everything," the 39-year-old James told ESPN. "Just staying on point about it and not getting discouraged at times where one game I feel great, then the next day I wake up, or the next game, I don't feel as great. But that's just part of the process."

ONE WEEK BEFORE the Feb. 8 trade deadline, the Lakers had suffered back-to-back blowout losses to the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks and James had fired off his cryptic "hourglass" tweet . Meanwhile, the team's next game was on the road against the league's No. 1 team, the Boston Celtics , without James and Davis, who were late scratches.

Despite having their two superstars in street clothes, the Lakers looked as dangerous as they had all season.

"I told 'em before the game, we're missing our two big dogs or old dogs, whatever you want to call 'em," Ham told ESPN. "And these are my exact words in the pregame talk after the film had went off, I said, 'When I look around this locker room, I see a bunch of young, hungry, talented pit bulls. And the only mistakes we can make is to not give multiple efforts and not have a next-play mentality.'

"I said, 'Go to the basket, miss a layup? F--- it. Next play. Referee calls a bulls--- foul? F--- it. Next play. Play great defense, they got an offensive rebound? F--- it. Next play.'"

The Lakers pulled out the 114-105 win, with James and Davis eagerly cheering on the sidelines.

"They just f---ing came out and played unbelievable," Ham told ESPN. "And gave themselves that confidence and showed our two team captains [that] we can get this s--- done."

The Lakers won their first three games of February and the trade deadline passed without Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka making any deals. While James privately hoped L.A. would part with either its 2029 or 2030 first-round draft pick to upgrade its talent for a postseason push, sources told ESPN, he immediately shifted into recruiter mode.

James pitched guard Spencer Dinwiddie on signing with the Lakers after being bought out of his contract with the Brooklyn Nets . Dinwiddie told ESPN that James' appeal, perhaps even more than returning to play for his hometown team, was instrumental in his decision.

Starting with the shorthanded win in Boston on Feb. 1, the Lakers finished the season 23-10 -- the fifth-best record in the league during that stretch. They surged to third in the league in offensive efficiency in those 33 games.

And they did it with largely the same starting lineup that got L.A. to the West finals last season: James, Davis, Russell, Rui Hachimura and Reaves. (Reaves returned Jan. 3 to replace Russell, while Russell and Hachimura later replaced Reddish and Prince with the first unit.)

Yet rather than the team's resiliency being applauded as the prevailing sentiment surrounding the late-season success, multiple team sources told ESPN that the Lakers should have -- or even would have -- finished better than No. 7 in the West and avoided the play-in tournament had Ham settled on that starting lineup much sooner.

"The job of a coach is to make the best out of what you have," one team source told ESPN. "And he wasn't doing that."

MONDAY'S PLAYOFF EXIT , at the hands of the Nuggets once again, is ultimately how this season will be remembered for the Lakers. Teams that lose in lopsided fashion don't get together decades later to reminisce, after all.

Posturing for the future already seemingly began before the series was over. Davis appeared to call out Lakers coaches following the Game 2 loss in which the Lakers blew a 20-point lead in Denver.

"We have stretches where we just don't know what we're doing on both ends of the floor," he said.

Ham took exception to the comments, telling reporters he has an "incredibly talented" staff that prides itself in being "highly efficient and organized" and addressed Davis privately, while publicly rebuffing him.

"I'll agree to disagree on that one," Ham said.

A team source was confounded by Ham's lack of accountability, questioning to ESPN the merit in boasting about his coaching staff's preparedness while the Nuggets ran their win streak against them into double-digits. Ham's adjustments, or lack thereof, stood out so much that Nuggets coach Michael Malone said in between Games 2 and 3 that his team had "gone over adjustments [for] different players and play-calls that we haven't even had to show yet."

James seemingly called out the ability of the rest of the roster, other than Davis, to deliver on the postseason stage after the star duo combined for 59 points in Game 3 while the six other players to see the court scored a combined 46 -- punctuated by Russell's scoreless night on 0-for-7 shooting.

"We know what it takes to win a championship and how damn near perfect you got to be," James said of himself and Davis. "That's not like something that's so crazy to obtain."

And Hachimura, when asked about the pressure L.A. will feel to make changes, seemingly called out the franchise's impatience on Friday before Game 4 when he said that the main difference between the Lakers and the Nuggets isn't expertise, it's experience.

"We have probably played 120 games together, you know?" Hachimura said of the current Lakers core. "And probably, [Denver has] played like a thousand games together. ...

"We have the talent, for sure. I don't think anybody can beat us, just talent-wise. We just got to put everything together."

The Lakers have to determine what needs to be fixed and to what extent, but they have no clear answer yet as to James' future. He has until June 29 to opt in for the final year of his contract, guaranteeing a 22nd season during which he'll turn 40 in December or become a free agent.

While James said during All-Star weekend in February he is "happy" as a Laker and "hopefully" remains with the purple and gold, just how much longer he will play is something only he knows.

His performance this season -- he averaged 25.7 points per game, shattering the record for scoring average in a 21st season -- helped him figure out his endgame.

"Listen, I'm not about to just be out there just for cardio," James told ESPN late in the season. "I love the game. I'm going to be honest, I love it. I love going out there and competing, but I can't, me personally, I got to be a threat at all times when I'm on the floor. So I take a lot of pride in that."

Retirement is not far off.

"It's still coming," James said. "It's not like, 'Oh s---, I'm playing so great this year, you know what? I might play and stick around for even more [time].' No. It's coming.

"It's cool. Because, to be honest, I don't see myself falling off anytime soon. But then like, what am I doing?"

No matter how the Lakers choose to address their problems this summer after their first-round flameout, James has a personal timeline all his own.

"I got a family," James said. "I got a nine-year-old daughter. I got a son that's in college, that's deciding if he's going to go to college or go pro. I got a son that's about to be a senior in high school. I've missed a lot of family time and they've allowed me to do that and never put no pressure on me. ...

"That s--- is important too. What more [is left]? I've done everything I can do. There's nothing I haven't accomplished in this league that I've wanted to accomplish. So like at some point you got to [hang it up]."