Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakersnation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane.

You can find me over on Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane. Oh, X, I should say. That's the first time I've said Twitter in a while.

I've been pretty good about changing it to X or you can find me on Instagram or threads at Trevor Lane.

NBA, happy to be back. Took a little vacation during the All-Star break.

Now, here we are back and heading into one of the most important stretches,

actually the most important stretch of the Lakers season.

So I am very excited to be back in action.

Let's go.

We've got Lakers Warriors coming up on Thursday.

Quick apology that this is coming out a little bit late, got back a little later than I expected from my vacation. So having to record this in the morning rather than in the evening. So podcast listeners, this is coming out a little bit late for you guys. I know it's usually there in your feed when you wake up in the morning, but

unfortunately wasn't able to get that done last night. So here it is. Here's the podcast for

today. We've got a lot to talk about. We have a lot of things to dive into. And I also have a

little bit of scheduled nonsense for the end of this show as well. So all the basketball stuff, of course, is going to be at the beginning.

But some scheduled nonsense here at the end from my travels.

We'll talk a little bit about that at the end of the show.

So real ones, if you guys want to stick around till then, I'll chat a bit about a few little things.

But let's start with this right now.

I mean, this is it.

This is it, folks.

Do or die.

Do or die for the Lakers.

Currently sitting in the ninth seed in the Western Conference.

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