Lakers Silence Thunder With LeBron James Dropping 40

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Lakers badly needed a win to snap a 4-game losing streak and they got it with a road victory over the Thunder. LeBron James was electric, dropping 40 points and doing everything LA needed him to in order to get the win. Darvin Ham debuted a new starting five that included benching D'Angelo Russell, plus we got some bad news about Gabe Vincent. All that and more with Trevor Lane, Matt Peralta, Jeff Spiegel, and Sean Davis on today's show.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:13.0	Hello, Lakers Nation, welcome and to the Lakers Nation.
0:18.5	Live show.
0:20.6	I am Trevor Lane, and the Lakers Nation.com live show.
0:22.3	I am Trevor Lane and the Lakers. They pick up the big win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:26.4	LeBron James.
0:28.0	How about 40?
0:29.7	Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.
0:31.6	The Lakers get it done.
0:33.7	Taking out the thunder, the wind that they needed and just lost four in a row.
0:37.1	Finally, Lakers get back to their winning ways.
0:40.3	Joining me tonight to help break this down.
0:43.8	We've got Matt the Optimist Peralta, Optimism Prime himself in the house to talk Lakers basketball
0:50.9	as well as typically a Dodger guy, but he does jump in with Lakers stuff
0:55.2	from time to time. We've got my guy, Jeff Spiegel. Guys, how you doing? This is a wonderful surprise. Hi, Jeff. How are you doing? It's good, good to be here. I was doing the playback tonight. So I texted Trevor and said, hey, I was dialed into this one. I'll hop on for a bit. So appreciate you having me.
0:52.0	This was not a bad game So appreciate you having me.
1:18.1	This was this was not a bad game to make your your playback debut of the of the season for Jeff. This was this game was nuts. Back and forth, the thunder were throwing haymakers at the Lakers.
1:23.3	The Lakers were firing right back. Jeff, what was your impression during the game? Because to me, I was nervous. Let's put it that way. But that was an incredibly exciting game, too. Well, and I think the thing that impressed me most was just their ability to withstand runs. There were a lot of times where they'd go up five or seven and then they'd give that lead right away. But, you know, the fact,
1:45.3	they built up that lead in the third quarter, go up by, you know, 17. Oklahoma City cuts it to like nine or ten with, you know, eight or nine minutes to go. And you're starting, you know, I was joking with Ryan Ward. I said, all right, what's the confidence level right now that they're going to hang on.
1:40.4	And Ryan was confident and they just kept building that lead back up and counterpunching
1:45.4	every time Oklahoma City hit him with something.
2:05.3	So it was impressive stuff. Certainly helps when you get 40 out of LeBron James. Matt, did you share
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