Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live podcast. I'm Trevor Lane. Happy to have you all here if you're coming in from X, from Facebook, of course, from YouTube. We're going to be talking some Lakers basketball tonight. We'll talk a little bit about the starting lineup, but that may look like what it should look like. Of course, we'll be taking your questions and comments as well.

I'm already seeing a bunch coming in here from the chat. Joining me tonight, that's my guy,

Mark Guttles. Mark, are you doing? What's up, man? How you doing? Doing well. I'll tell you what.

I wish it was the end of september already so we were at training

camp and the season was getting going because uh we're right now we're in the dog days this is

the brutal part of the summer waiting for lakers basketball to come back yeah i mean unless you got

one of those streams you can watch luca play a little bit uh had a scare a couple of days ago, but obviously it wasn't nothing major.

Obviously, we were talking about it all summer, how amazing shape he looks to be in.

So it's good to see that that wasn't nothing serious there because definitely, uh,

was a little scary when you saw that tweet come across the timeline a couple days ago.

Well, funny that you mentioned that because indeed tomorrow, that is the one kind of saving grace that we've got right now.

Slovenia against Great Britain tomorrow 11 a.m. Pacific time.

I will be live here on Lakers Nation and we'll be doing a little play by play

for that game. So I'm excited for that one. Luca is in action so we can all breathe a sigh

relief. Luca is expected to play another tune up game for Slovenia getting ready for a

Eurobasket. Mark, how do you feel about Luca playing for Slovenia? Because I think Lakers fans,

like worst nightmare, almost came true last game when he grabbed his knee in that moment. I think

we all just held our breath. Yeah, I mean, you can look at it two different ways. Obviously,

as Laker fans, we have a bias, right? We're probably saying, you know, just worry about the Lakers and, you know, just take time off, continue to work out. But we got to understand at the same time. He takes some great pride and playing for his country. Like, this is something that really means a lot to him. So looking at it from a objective lens, I think it's okay.

And it's nothing wrong with, you know, getting some game reps in, you know, especially with him,

with his conditioning, you know, losing the weight, looking slimmer, you know, just seeing how that looks.

So obviously, you don't want to get hurt, but you can get hurt even working out.

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