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Lakers Nation Podcast

Ja Morant Injury Update, Lakers' Impressive Game 1 Performance

Lakers Nation Podcast

Medium Large LLC

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Lakers got a big win in game 1 and now the Grizzlies may be without Ja Morant at least for game 2. What does this mean for LA? How will Memphis' injuries change the narrative around the Lakers' impressive game 1? Plus, lots to discuss from around a big game for Rui Hachimura and Austin Reaves with Trevor Lane... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com. You're home for everything Lakers. This is the Lakersnation.com podcast. This is a bonus episode because we've got so much to talk about coming out of the Lakers win in game one against the Memphis Grizzlies. I do have a bunch of super chat questions left over from the post game show that we'll get into. Plus, we've got to talk a little

0:21.5

bit about John Morant's injury. We do have an update there and just some new thoughts after last

0:26.5

night's game against the Grizzlies, what everything means for the Lakers here moving forward.

0:31.5

Some things that I particularly liked about this game. So we got a lot of stuff to get into.

0:36.4

Let's start with the John Morant situation because here's the thing.

0:40.4

And I've seen this response from a lot of a lot of Lakers fans so far,

0:43.4

saying, of course you want the Lakers to win the series,

0:46.4

but you don't want them to win the series because of an injury to a really good player,

0:52.0

a superstar player for another team.

0:54.5

And now, according to Adrian Wojnarowski, it is very doubtful that John Morant is going to be a go on Wednesday for game two.

1:02.8

So again, significant doubt were the words used by Adrian Wojnarowski regarding John Morant's availability for the Memphis Grizzlies.

1:09.8

Not a surprise.

1:10.4

That was a nasty, nasty looking injury.

1:13.0

I was amazed that there were no fractures in there.

1:16.6

Again, x-rays, this is on the positive.

1:18.4

X-rays came out negative on John Moran on his hand.

1:22.1

I thought for sure something was going to be broken in there, but still in a lot of pain

1:26.7

and significant doubt that he

1:27.7

will be eligible to play in game two.

1:30.9

So what does this mean for the Lakers?

1:34.0

I mean, again, you never want to see injuries.

1:36.1

One of the things that I really, really hate around the NBA, it's when we see opposing

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