Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

It's game day. Lakers Warriors tonight, 7 o'clock Pacific time in Las Vegas.

Lakers, their fourth game of preseason play.

We're going to talk a little bit today about what we want to see from that game.

We also have some news to get into first about the center market.

I am Trevorvor lane you can

find me over on x at trevor underscore lane joining me today it's donnie freeman aka d free donnie

how you doing i'm doing pretty good you didn't tell me that we were doing this like where it's like

next day so you said game day i was like wait a minute did i miss something like i was like i was like was like, wait a minute. Did I miss something? Like I was like, I was like, I was like, wait a minute. Did I fall asleep that I didn't know? So yeah. Thanks for pulling back the curtain there, Donnie. Yes, we are recording this the night before. It is not technically game day as we're recording this. But by the time you're watching this or listening to this, it is game day.

With the exception of channel members, by the way, YouTube channel members are pre-recorded

shows.

They get access to those immediately as soon as we finish with them and get them out there.

So YouTube channel members, by the way, I did just drop a bunch of new emojis and badges

for YouTube channel members.

If you guys have no idea what I'm talking about, click the join button over on the YouTube channel. You can check out our channel membership program. Some pretty cool stuff that we've got over there, including we do once a week. We do members only live shows where channel members get to come on stage. We all talk basketball, hang out. It's a good time. So check out the channel membership program. Click that join button. And you also get, again, the shows a little bit early. But Donnie, big night tonight. Lakers, Warriors, LeBron, Steph Curry. Before we get to that, though, because I do want to get into what we need to see in tonight's game. Before we get to that, the Lakers very clearly need a center.

There's a couple of names that over the last few days, they've been connected to. Let's start with

the first rumor that's been floating around. And gosh, I wish there was a way they had gotten this done.

The Lakers had an interest in Hornets, big man, Nick Richards.

Donnie, I know you like this particular target.

What is it you like about Nick Richards?

Potentially, let's say maybe somewhere down the road.

They pull off a deal for him.

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