Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live podcast. I am Trevor Lane.

We've got a big game coming up tomorrow or today if you're listening to the podcast version of this show coming out.

In the morning, Lakers, going to finish off 2024 against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

What I want to do tonight is talk a little bit about that matchup, talk about the debut of Doreen Phine Smith and Shake Milton, everything else going on in the world of the Lakers,

the injury front, all of that kind of stuff too.

Oh, yeah, oh yeah, that thing, you know, the trade market.

We'll talk a little bit about that to, I will apologize.

I said earlier tonight, or this afternoon, I suppose, when I did lunchtime with the Lakers,

that if I recorded the podcast, I was considering doing a live version of it and just going

live for the pod. Normally, I just record it and post it, but I decided I would go live.

I said it would be later on in the evening, but I had some time here, it opened up unexpectedly, and I thought, you know what,

let's do this. Let's go. Let's go do a live show right now. I've got so much stuff I want to

talk about regarding the Lakers. It's a fun time. Jason said this trade brought Trevor his joy

back. He hasn't been live this many times in a day in years.

It was probably last time we did this was over the summer when we had all the Dan Hurley stuff going on,

where we had like multiple live shows in a day.

Look, when there's more stuff going on, obviously it's fun because there's a lot of stuff

to talk about.

But yeah, I mean, it's the way it goes.

It's the way it goes, right?

We get exciting and fun stuff going on. We're all ready to talk more Lakers basketball.

So big game tomorrow night. By the way, the calves are playing in about 30 minutes. They're playing

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