Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakersnation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers,

Kings, tonight. This is a big one. The Lakers, they've been playing much better basketball of late.

They're moving up in the standings. They move from 10 up to 9. Ideally, they like to move even further.

They're six games over 500 right now. And and tonight they've got a chance to close the gap

between themselves and the Sacramento King.

So this is a big one.

As you can see, if you're watching this on the YouTube channel right now, I am still in South

Carolina, but I will be back in studio for the game tonight.

So that means come join us over on playback. Playback.com slash Lakers Nation. That's where you can watch the game directly with us or the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation to see our game play by play. Again, big, big game tonight. Can't stress that enough. I'm going to break down tonight's matchup also have a little bit of news

to get into probably going to be a little bit shorter show than usual just as we get ready for this

game and i get ready to travel and and get back into the studio in time for the game now i will say i am

recording this before the kings play the Bucks here on Tuesday evening.

So I don't have the result of that game.

All I can say is number one, I hope the Kings lost.

I hope the Kings lose that game.

That's the most important thing.

And number two, I hope it went to like quadruple overtime because the Kings,

they'll be playing on the second night of a back-to-back. It's been a rarity this season for the Lakers to be on a rest advantage in a game, but that will be the case when the Lakers do take on the Sacramento Kings here on Wednesday evening or tonight as you're watching this. So important that the Lakers take advantage. And once again, it wouldn't hurt if the Kings and Bucks game would go to like quadruple overtime.

But the most important part is that the Kings need to lose this game. We need the Bucks to take care of business.

So we'll see if we can get that to happen. But Lakers Kings tonight, first, a little bit of news, and this was coming out of Lakers practice on Tuesday.

Darvin Ham, let everybody know that Gabe Vincent has been cleared. Now, he's been cleared to

return to practice, but the non-contact version of practice. So he has returned on the court,

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