Lakers Bounce-Back Opportunity Against Mavs, Center Situation, Anthony Davis' Status

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Lakers made a colossal mistake against the Rockets and now need to bounce back against the Mavs. Trevor Lane opens up the call in line to discuss the team's center situation, their spot in the standings, LeBron's return and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome in Lakers Nation. Oh, boy, I know we're coming off of a tough one against the Houston Rockets.
0:08.3	Got a lot to talk about there, about that, but also a big matchup coming up later on, less than 24 hours away now against the Dallas Mavericks.
0:17.4	We'll talk about that a bunch on today's show. My name is Trevor Lane.
0:21.3	You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane. This is thelakersnation.com podcast slash
0:26.9	live show right now. I am live over on AMP. So I will have people calling into this show.
0:32.5	We'll be talking Lakers basketball throughout the evening. If you are listening to the podcast
0:36.7	version of this over on Apple podcast, Spotify,
0:38.9	wherever it is that you listen to podcasts, welcome in.
0:41.3	And of course, YouTube viewers, welcome in.
0:43.7	Hopefully you are subscribing there and turning on notifications as well.
0:48.7	You know, I woke up in not the best mood today, given what happened with the Lakers in that loss of the Rockets.
0:55.2	And you look at the NBA standings right now.
0:57.9	Well, I mean, the Lakers are fortunate in some ways.
1:01.4	So recording this Thursday evening, and for the YouTube viewers, I'm going to go ahead and put up the standings.
1:07.8	I'll go over them for everybody else so that you aren't missing out or anything. But right now, the Lakers currently are sitting in the nineings. I'll go over them for everybody else so that you aren't missing out or anything.
1:11.6	But right now, the Lakers currently are sitting in the nine seed, 13 games back.
1:16.6	They are one game back of the Dallas Mavericks, who's their opponent Friday evening.
1:21.0	They are tied in terms of record with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
1:24.2	And they actually have to go through several rounds of tiebreakers in order to determine who gets the nine seed and who gets the 10 seed right now because the Lakers and Thunder are actually tied in conference record and they're tied in head-to-head matchups on this season. So for the Lakers and Thunder, it actually comes down to right now. Hopefully it probably will not be this way by the end of the season. Well, certainly won't because they play each other again.
1:45.9	But right now, in order to break the tie, it actually has to go goes down to their winning
1:51.0	percentage against Western Conference playoff teams.
1:54.9	That's what is right now breaking the tie between the Lakers and Thunder.
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