Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live podcast.

I am Trevor Lane.

We've got a lot to talk about on tonight's show.

If you're joining us live, we're going to be taking your questions,

your comments on the show tonight.

Editor extraordinaire, Daniel Stark and Daniel, thanks so much for jumping on.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's been a little boring the last few nights with no basketball.

I guess getting used to the off season now, but yeah, definitely happy to be on here with you.

Yeah, that's right. I mean, this is NBA Finals Eve as we're doing this show. We've got the finals

kicking off tomorrow. Last night, Ryan Ward, Luke Rosano, and I talked a little bit about our own

predictions. What are you predicting for the finals? I don't know. I feel like it's tough to pick

against the OKC in this. Like, you know, as good as this run has been for the Pacers, I don't

know, I just feel like they're a little overmatched here. And I think OKC wins kind of easily. Like I'll say, I guess, five games. But I'm rooting for, you know, a good competitive series, but I just don't see it. I'm excited for the series, but I'm with you. I've got OKC and five. I just think that's the way this is going to go.

You dig into the advanced metrics. They're just better. They're just better.

They've been better than everybody else all season. They're really, really good. They're really, really good. And I think that's what we're going to see play out here in the finals. But I do hope it goes six or seven. And it's possible.

I mean, the Pacers, they're so good when they go into their like invulnerable, invincible mode or whatever late in the fourth quarter. They just go on these crazy runs. If that happens a couple of times, they could take a few games here. We can see this thing go six or seven, but I've got OKC taking it. They are the favorite going in here. But that's going to be kicking off tomorrow.

That'll be a lot of fun.

We get basketball back and in action here. But before we know it, it's going to be the draft. That's just three weeks away now. It's going to be free agency. We're going to be at Summer League. All kinds of stuff is going to be coming up here for the Lakers. So we are on the cusp.

I know there hasn't been a ton of New Lakers news out lately,

but we're on the cusp.

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