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LeBron James is already out.

Now, Luca will miss some time for the Lakers.

Do they need Austin Reeves to score 50 every night?

Meanwhile, Victor Webinyama is off to a historic start, but will it last?

And don't look now, but the Rockets and Celtics still haven't won a game.

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However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app, Thanks so much for making us your first listen every day. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code Lockdown NBA. For $20 off, your first purchase, I'm Wes Goldberg, and we have our overreactions to the first week of the season coming up, and we're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts we have two of the best with me as always from the lockdown nuggets podcast senior NBA writer for the action network it's Matt more Matt we are what's see six days into the season I would give several organs for Cedric coward like I Like I would gladly give up several organs to him if he needed them. Like if it was just like, hey, Cedric Coward doesn't really need your lung, but he can play better basketball if you give your lung up. I'd be like, cool, no problem. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, also a Bears and Bulls creator for bleach reports. Hey, unless we do do agree cedric coward i text you guys earlier he is somebody who probably can is going to be looked at as one of these steals of this draft not just a still in this draft one of these steals of this draft and we all agree this might be one of the best draft classes we've seen in maybe more than 20 years we'll talk about that as we get to our overre. But we have to start with the big news from the weekend that Luca Donchich is going to miss at least a week because of a left finger sprain and a lower left leg contusion. He's going to be reevaluated in a week. But according to multiple reports, the Lakers are optimistic that he won't need any more time than that. Here's locked on Lakers with more. The Lakers level of concern

over Luca is

a problem. He won't need any more time than that. Here's Locked on Lakers with more. The Lakers level of concern over Luca is pretty minor, and they're all pretty confident

that while a week without Luca is obviously an obstacle that needs to be overcome, there is

not a lot of concern that this is going to stretch into two weeks, three weeks,

all of a sudden he's out nearly as long as LeBron is. In this game for a variety of circumstances,

Austin had the ball in his hand by himself. I imagine his usage rating is going to be somewhere

in the high 30s. I want to put in that, I want to put a pin in that point on Austin Reeves here in a second. He scored 50 points and that Lakers went over the Kings on Sunday. But before all that, Hayes, the Lakers, they're two and one. Okay, so it's not like red alarm fire here right now. But LeBron James is still sideline, still unclear how much longer

that's going to be. Luca now out. This is not the start that the Lakers wanted.

It's definitely not the start that the Lakers wanted. It's a difficult start for any team to miss

their two best players with Luca being out a week. LeBron still has no clear timeline on a return,

but then you get a game like this from Austin Reeves.

And I would say this, like, when Luca was in there, it looked more promising than I thought that it would. DeAndre Aiton had a big game as well last night to go along with Austin Rees and Ro Roachamo, and maybe you need them. Like depth is a problem for the Lakers, just a question for the Lakers. And so now with having these guys out there and ready to go, maybe they forward something

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