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

It is December 15th, and you know what that means the unofficial start to trade season around the NBA.

No, that doesn't mean that we're expecting anything major to happen today.

But there are a bunch of different trade rumors, a lot of news that dropped.

And so we want to break down all of that.

Plus, we've got some fan questions and comments stemming from the last game against the Boston Celtics. I know, I know painful memory, but we've got a bunch of questions and comments that we're going to get into as well from that one. It's a lot of stuff to break down today. Joining me on the show is Sean Spaces Davis. Sean, how are you? I'm doing good, man. Thanks for having me back on. And, yeah, very painful loss the other night to the Celtics, but glad to be back on. Talk about it. Yeah, yeah. It was not a fun one the way that all played out. But in any event, before we dive into all of the trade talks, make sure you guys are subscribing right here to the Lakers Nation YouTube channel. If you're over on the podcast side, make sure that you do give us that five-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Great way to help out the show. Love going through and reading all of the comments about the Lakers Nation.com podcast. All right. Well, without further ado, we got a lot of information coming out on the

trade front. And so what I want to do is just kind of run through some of what's out there so we can

start to kind of piece some things together. I will say this. We say this just about every year that

the Lakers tend to get connected to a lot of players. This year is not the exception.

In fact, this year may be the extreme because we're in a situation right now where literally just about every player that's been rumored to be available on the market,

the Lakers have been connected to in some way or another.

I mean, on one hand, like you know, sometimes that stuff gets blown out of proportion. But on the other hand, I think it also means that the team's being real aggressive right now in trade talks and they're going to do everything they can to try to get something done. So, Sean, at this point, I'm fairly optimistic that something will actually happen here with the Lakers that they'll get some sort of a trade done. The question is, when? Are you feeling the same way? Like, do you think they're going to do something? Yeah, I think there's like scenarios where there's like so much smoke that like nothing's going to happen. Like it's just too obvious. I think this is one of those times where there's so much smoke, something has to happen. It's got to be fire. It's got to be fire, exactly.

And I think there's a problem I have been Chris Haynes,

so it's like 80 kind of forced their hand with the level of play that he's been at basically

since he's been fully healthy, recovered from that sore left back.

So, I mean, sort of that left back, lower back.

But yeah, man, 80 being awesome, as forced to hand the front office. And I do think something will happen, whether or not it's a huge trade or a smaller trade is to be determined. But I do take something's going to happen. All right. So let's get into what we have here so far. From Eric Pinkis, a bleach report, has said that the Lakers would be interested in

De Mardorosa, Nikola Vucev, Boyan Bogdanovich, Yacquip Erdo, Evan Fornier, Cam Reddish, on and on and on.

They're interested in just about everybody.

The main goal for the Lakers that we've heard pretty consistent across different platforms

is that they would like to get three-point shooting.

They would like to get some wing depth and size, which those are absolutely in my mind,

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