Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast. It's game day. Hopefully not for the last time. Lakers Nuggets tonight. Game four. Can the Lakers keep their season alive? I'm going to talk a bit about the game. Talk about the mindset of the Lakers. We need to talk about DeAngelo Russell. Oh boy, do we need to talk about DeAngelo Russell? We'll talk about him. We'll also get into the injury report. Who's available? Who might be making a return for tonight's game? In fact, who looks like they will be making a return for tonight's game. Plus, I need to get into the mailbag. So a lot to talk about for this one. The first quick reminder, if you haven't done so yet, hit this subscribe button over on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel, turn on those notifications. Here's the thing, even if the Lakers season comes to an end tonight, even if that's the world that we're living in come Sunday morning, that just means the offseason is that much closer. We're going to have so much to talk about trades, free agency, the draft, all kinds of things. We're going to keep you up to date on all of it. So make sure you do hit that subscribe button. All right, let's get into it. Let's start things off with the injury report. This is what the Lakers put out the other night. Actually, it was last night.

The Lakers injury report lists LeBron James as probable Anthony Davis with a wrist sprain as questionable.

Come on. He's playing. If Anthony Davis doesn't play in tonight's game being listed as as questionable,

then you know the Lakers have fully set their minds on Cancun and they're done.

But look at this.

Christian Wood questionable.

I know the guy we've all been waiting on is Jared Vanderbilt.

He's still listed as out.

No Jared Vanderbilt, no Kim Reddish, no Jalen Hood, but Christian Wood now questionable

to play in tonight's game. Might that make a difference? Probably not. I mean, let's be real,

right? I mean, no offense to Christian Wood, but that's probably not going to like change the outcome

of the game. Could it be nice to have another bigish body to throw out there on the floor for the Lakers?

Sure, especially when they got crushed on the offensive glass in the first half,

last go round against the Denver Nuggets.

So Christian Wood coming back, I think it's a positive.

It's a positive for the Lakers, just having another big body to put out there.

Is he suddenly going to jump into the lineup? Is he suddenly going to play 20, 25 minutes, drop 30 and 15 or something? No, of course not. He's not going to do that. That's not what he is. It's not what he's been over the course of the season. But he's another big player. He's an option as a big that can shoot a little bit from the outside, or at least ideally hasn't shot the ball that well this season. So I'm not expecting big things here, but just to have another player with some size to put out there on the floor. That's something. The fact that he's been upgraded to questionable suggests there's a pretty good chance that he will be a go, especially when we had the report from Shams Tarania earlier in the week that he was planning on returning for game

three. Obviously, that didn't come to fruition, but here we are. Game four seems fairly likely

right now that Christian Wood will be a go. Never know for sure until he is declared in or declared available is how the lakers

list him and that will be probably 30 minutes prior to game time that we'll find out about

that but christian would questionable getting that designation right now probably means he's

going to be a go for tonight's game all All right, we also need to talk a little

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