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All right, so let's talk. We're going to get into a number of different things today. Obviously, solo show, last show I had Ron Gutterman on with me for this one, solo show. And for those that are new to the format, the way we're approaching this is now Monday through Friday, we're going to be providing a Lakers podcast for you. Now, in some cases, that's going to take the form of the Lakersnation.com live post game show. But anytime there's not a game, we're going to be doing our Lakersnation.com podcast. Sometimes it'll be just me. Sometimes we'll have guests on. Sometimes it might even be other people altogether. But we'll have a podcast out there for you Monday through Friday every single day. And then if the Lakers happen to play on Saturday, well, hey, then that means you get a bonus podcast and one that'll come out on Sunday or a Friday night. You'll get a Saturday podcast, whatever. Bottom line, you're going to get at least five podcasts a week from Lakers Nation. And some weeks, it will be even more than that.

So that's right. The postgame show stays the same. Nothing changes there. The only difference is you're getting more Lakersnation.com content. So I feel like that's got to be a pretty good deal.

So a few things that I want to get into today, though. We're going to talk about LeBron's injury and what this might mean for the Lakers moving for, particularly as we start to take a little bit closer look at the standing. Some of it is a little bit troubling, but there is some reason for optimism too. So I've got a few things that I want to get into there. Also, I want to talk a bit about what the Lakers should actually be

looking for on the trademark. And, you know, we spent a lot of time talking about, can the Lakers

go get this guy? Can they get that guy? Can they get this player? What is it, though, that they

really should be looking for? What skill sets do they need on this team moving forward? And I know

the knee-jerk reaction is to say a lot of things

is what they need. There's a lot of different things out there that the Lakers could use. But I want to

break down a little bit of statistically where the Lakers are actually at right now compared to the

rest of the league and then get into what it is that they're looking for. And then I'm going to do

a little mailbag section, question and answer style. I threw it out there on my Instagram page, as well as the Lakersnation.com Instagram page. You guys can find me on Instagram at Trevor Lane NBA. Follow me over on Twitter. That's at Trevor underscore Lane. I tossed it out there to some of my followers to get some questions, just some things that people wanted

me to talk about on here. So we will finish off with a little mailbag segment. Again, the nice

part about this, part of the reason why we went to this format was because as great as the

postgame show is, and I still love doing that. It really is kind of just a question and answer format

where fans are throwing questions at us

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