Yo, yo, yo, what is going on? Lakers Nation? It is your boy, Matt, the optimist

Peralta, here with you today for the Lakers Nation postgame show. Don't worry, guys.

Trevor Lane has not left us. New Year, new host, not true at all. Trevor will be back

with us shortly, just taking a little bit of break load

managing if you will in the new year of 2026 our lord and savior uh by his good graces we have

survived to see another year and another lakers win uh and you know what uh for the guys that was

following us on the live play by play i said i was doing the post game show by myself but it turns out

that was not true i've got some reinforcements here. So I'm pleased, so pleased to bring up my good

friend, Anthony Watrato, on our sister's site, Dodger Blue, filling in today as a guest on the Lakers

Nation post game show. Anthony, my friend, how are you? Happy New Year. Merry Christmas yeah happy new year man uh yeah good to be here good to come on after win i was like oh for my last two or something like that it was brutal yeah i get you they were they were scaring me there for a while but happy to be on happy to be on with you buddy good to see you yeah good to see you man i don't know if we've done a stream just you and i before so this will be this will be interesting to say the

least uh i feel your pain i made my dodger blue uh post game uh debut in what was it was it

was it game three dodgers fillies oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah so i just uh you know what

that was a strong one yeah i had a lot of people saying that I should never come back because I am bad luck and lo and behold, they won a World Series. So I think they had a point, Anthony. Hey, hey, hey. You know, the other way to look at it is during the playoff run that you were on, they won the World Series. So maybe you're good luck, too.

Now, that's true.

I'm 2 and O doing the play-by-play and post-game show by myself without Trevor. So maybe, maybe, I don't know, man. Maybe that's the key here. But you know what? Enough Dodger talk, although I will be happy to talk about them coming up in the next few months. Anthony, like you mentioned, it was a little sticky at first.

Not going to lie, I was a little sticky at first.

Not going to lie, I was a little nervous covering the game and thinking, I got to,

I can't wait to hop on and talk about this one.

But the Lakers hold on to beat the Memphis Grizzlies again, then the second time this

year in 2026, 120 to 114.

Let me go ahead and share my screen real quick. Get that score

burned off and going so everyone can see what we're looking at here. 120 to 114. You know what,

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