Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in. It's game day. Lakers, wolves tonight, second night of a back-to-back.

Going to be a tough one up in Minnesota. Can the Lakers find a way to make it two in a row?

Speaking of which, the Lakers got the win last night over the Utah Jazz by just one point.

And I'd like to start today's show by giving a very heartfelt and special thank you to jazz coach Will Hardy.

Now, an honorary Laker for calling that time out right before Colin Sexton would have won the

game most likely for the Utah Jazz at the buzzer. Will Hardy. I don't know if that was next level

tanking or just somewhere deep down, your blood is purple and gold.

But we sure do appreciate you.

That was a very kind gesture.

And again, we'll make you an honorary Laker.

Your jersey is in the mail.

So once again, Will Hardy, big heartfelt appreciation for you, my friend.

All right.

The Lakers take on the wolves tonight.

Need to talk about that matchup on today's show.

Also need to get into the mailbag.

So we'll do that as well.

Obviously kind of tough with their being such a quick early game. These early Eastern time start times,

well, early Pacific time, 5 p.m. Pacific time. These early starts are always tough, especially when it's back to back

for each show to have plenty of time for you guys to come in and watch and listen and all of that.

But nonetheless, we're going to dive in here. I guess let's start here. And again,

big shout out to our sponsor, Bet, US.S. The Lakers right now, an eight-point underdog to the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight. The wolf's favored by eight points. And while the, as of right now, as I'm recording this, the injury report is not out. So I don't know what the status is of all the players who missed last night's game. JJ Reddick last night was asked about it. He said he doesn't know. He said he'll find out when everybody else finds out what their status is. But they had a ton of players missing due to injury and due to illness. I mean, Austin Reeves, DeAngelo Russell, Cam Reddish, of course, Christian Wood, Jared Vander,

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