Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

My name is Trevor Lane and it's game day.

Lakers Nets tonight 7.30 p.m. Pacific time.

Hopefully you come join me over on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel,

YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation as well as playback.

Playback.com slash Lakers Nation.

We'll be live during the game, breaking everything down, doing our play-by-play, responding to the chat, everything in between, reacting to the Lakers taking on the Nets tonight. So what I want to do on today's show, we'll talk a little bit about the matchup with the Nets, not a ton of stuff to break down. Yes, the return of DeAndre Russell. We'll get into that a little bit. but But JJ Redick had some comments at practice yesterday about potentially going with two bigs. I'm going to talk about that and what that means for the Lakers, both in terms of their lineup right now, as well as on the trade market. And then we need to get into the mailbag to finish things off. So a few things that we have to get into on today's show. If you haven't done so yet, please make sure you subscribe to the Lakers Nation YouTube channel. We are now weeks away, just under three weeks away from the NBA trade deadline. You know if the Lakers make any kind of move. We're going to be right here breaking everything down, talking through all of it. So make sure that you do hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications as well.

All right.

Let's get into it.

Let's do this.

So tonight, the Lakers take on the Nets.

And right now, the Lakers are my goodness, an 11.5 point favorite.

Something tells me that that may have to do with what happened the last time.

The Nets played a basketball game.

Now, to the surprise of no one, the Nets rested most of their players against the Clippers,

including DeAngelo Russell, who is no going to play tonight against the Lakers,

similar to what the Miami Heat did.

Miami Heat just did the same thing.

Rested Bamatabio against the Clippers, played him against the Lakers. Similar to what the Miami Heat did. Miami Heat just did the same thing. Rested Bamatabio against the Clippers,

played him against the Lakers. He had a back thing, but still, we, you know, look, let's

I know every fan base feels like players only return to play their team.

But we see this happen fairly often where players missed the game before the Lakers and then

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