Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

I am Trevor Lane.

We've got a lot to talk about on today's show.

Some really important news about the Lakers draft pick for this coming summer.

I've got so big on that.

We've got the whole situation with Lakers players,

maybe wanting to switch coaches mid-season and turn to one of the Lakers assistant coaches.

I'm going to talk about that and what that might mean for the future as well.

Plus, well, look, peek behind the curtain.

I'm recording this way later than I intended to in the evening.

It's kind of the middle of the night right now.

Why am I doing that? Well, because I started digging into some stats and looking back at lineups and looking back and where things went wrong with the Lakers this season. And I went down that rabbit hole. It turned into a pretty epic rant over on X. So I've got a lot of stuff, a lot of decisions that were made over the course of the season that we need to get into on today's show as well.

Plus, we're going to take a peek at the standings and where things are at with all of that.

But first, let's go here.

LeBron James thinks that the Lakers are still as good as anyone.

This is what LeBron said after the Lakers' unfortunate loss to the Golden State Warriors.

He said it is what it is.

At the end of the day, we're as good as any team in the league when we're whole and when we're not,

we're not.

It's hard for us to make up, especially having a guy like AD not playing.

It's pretty much impossible to make up for what he provides for our ball ball club,

both offensively and defensively.

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