Lakers Face Nuggets in Potential Playoff Preview
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Lakers face off against the Nuggets on Thursday, with the winner taking over the 5th seed in the conference. Pete and Darius discuss the matchup with Denver, the standings chase with just 20 games left in the regular season, and how teams three through six can all pose challenges for each other. And then later, the guys discuss Austin Reaves’ recent play and production as well as a new hire the Lakers made to their front office and business operations team.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.0 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.0 | You're kidding. That is really a compliment. |
| 0:10.0 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top part show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.0 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius. And it's looking increasingly likely that the Lakers will be facing one of three opponents in the first round of the playoffs. The Minnesota Timberwolves, the Houston Rockets, or tonight's opponent, the Denver Nuggets, a common playoff opponent for the Lakers in the 2020s. So looking forward to tonight's game. But before we get into details about that, and I'm going to talk about Austin a little bit later in a recent front office hire, Dee, I think it's important to contextualize kind of where we're at in the standings. After tonight, |
| 0:55.5 | we'll have 20 games left in the season, and the Lakers and Nuggets are right there neck and neck. |
| 1:00.6 | They're tied in the loss column, Pete, and Denver has one more win than the Lakers. So Denver has |
| 1:05.7 | already played their 60-second game. The winner of this game is going to be the fifth seed. |
| 1:11.6 | The nuggets have long been positioned as the team that has the best chance to like dethrone the thunder |
| 1:18.7 | in the West. Now, San Antonio is like become more and more real, particularly because of their |
| 1:24.5 | singular success against OKC as well. But Denver has fallen on some hard |
| 1:30.3 | times in terms of injury stuff. And they've gone from fighting Houston for the third seed to |
| 1:37.1 | potentially now being in sixth if they lose tonight against the Lakers. And that's one of the big |
| 1:42.7 | stories right now, Dee, is it's a big old clump between three and six. |
| 1:46.0 | There's four teams that could end up in any one of those seats. |
| 1:49.1 | The Lakers are only two games back in the loss column from Houston and one back from Minnesota, right? |
| 1:55.6 | So Houston is the third seed at 38 and 22. |
| 1:59.0 | Minnesota is fourth at 39 and 23. And then it's the Nuggets and Lakers, right? |
| 2:04.8 | Nuggets are 38 and 24, and the Lakers are 37 in 24. |
| 2:08.5 | And so as we approach the last quarter of the season, the idea of where the Lakers |
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