Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I am Trevor Lane. It's Wednesday night and we are live talking some Lakers basketball. We are on the eve of the schedule release. Schedule is coming out tomorrow. We will go live when it officially comes out. But we've already heard some of the games that are on the schedule. We're going to talk a bit about that. We'll talk about some of the big matchups that we're looking forward to. Plus, a couple of new

signings. Yes, they're Exhibit 10 contracts. People like to roll their rise. Oh, it's just an exhibit 10 deal. I know a lot of those guys don't pan out, but some do. So we're going to talk about those guys coming in.

Lots to talk about tonight.

And, of course,

we'll be taking your questions and comments

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from Facebook,

for me. talk about those guys coming in. Lots to talk about tonight. And, of course, we'll be taking your questions and comments coming in from YouTube,

from Facebook, from X.

Joining me tonight, it's editor extraordinaire, Daniel Stark, and Daniel, how you doing?

I'm doing well, Trevor.

Like you said, it's the eve of the NBA schedule drop, which for I'd say all of us, even,

you know, those of us who cover the team fans, like we're basically going to plan the next

eight months of our lives, you know, starting tomorrow once we get that Lakers schedule.

Like you, you know, we don't miss any games here.

So that's a big day for us. But yeah, other than that, I'm doing well. There's definitely that aspect of it, right? Like we get to plan out the next nearly year of our lives when that schedule gets released. What are the first things that you look for when the schedule comes out? Because I've got certain things that I, certain dates that I immediately go to. What about you? Yeah, I mean, some of them have already, you know, dropped and we'll get into

that, like, you know, opening night, Christmas Day and such. For me, I look for, A, I look at the

holidays. Like, obviously the Lakers are playing on Christmas every year. So that's a given. But what time

and such, you know,

you know, affects, you know, how Christmas day goes for the family and such, you know, New Year's and those type of things. And then I look at like what's the longest road trip,

like what's the longest homestan? Like, is there a long, you know, a stretch where they're on

a road trip where they're playing

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