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Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakers Nation.com. This is Lakers Nation live.

The Lakers, they come up short against the Clippers tonight, 127, 116. The Clippers get the win.

No, LeBron James for this one. LeBron out missing due to an ankle injury that the Lakers are managing. Darvindham said he would be day to day moving forward. You knew there were going to be some games that LeBron was going to need to miss in order to just manage injuries, his overall health, where he's at in terms of exhaustion and all of that. 39 years old, he's not going to be able to play every game, but the Lakers certainly missed him in this one. Again, dropping this game to the Clippers. On the plus side, Lakers are still two and one against the clippers on the season. So we'll certainly take that. But with this loss, the Lakers once again below 500, the trade deadline, it draws near near we got a lot to talk about in

this show we'll talk about the game we'll talk about the upcoming trade deadline what's

the latest there a lot of things for us to break down so let's get right into it here

I'm already seeing a lot of questions and comments coming in from the chat. Let's start here. Sean Davis,

screaming Davis said, since we missed out on Lowry, who would help with rebounding and at least

give me something to watch while we lose? I don't know if there's anybody that is going to help a ton with rebound. And obviously the Lakers, they're not going to try to lose games. They're not going to be losing games. If they're making trades, they're going to be trying to make trades that are going to put them over the top that are going to help them win games. The Lakers certainly didn't miss out on Kyle Lowry.

That's no question.

But yeah, they could wind up still getting him on the buyout market.

Mission 86.

No, Bueno, but at least we were close.

Next.

Yeah.

Look, this was, I thought the Lakers were a bit better than I expected than to be.

They were the heavy underdog in this one.

They showed fight.

I thought that they may come back and actually get a win.

I was just saying, hey, if you can be within five with like five minutes left and you give yourself a shot at least to come back. Okay, we'll take it. We'll take it.

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