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

It's game day.

We've got Lakers bucks tonight.

And oh boy, we've got some stuff to talk about with this game.

Lakers will definitely be a bit short-handed.

Tonight we're going to break down what that means.

Can the Lakers still get the win?

Also need to take a look at what else is going on around the nba really important for the standings and where the lakers currently sit we also need to get into the mailbag on today's show as well so lots to talk about joined by sean davis sean how are you doing doing all right uh phoenix losing to san Antonio helps um with no

minyama by the way uh so yeah we're doing all right excited to be back on show talk with you

trip yeah that's that's obviously i thought about we really we kind of have good news and bad

news to start off this show.

And since you mentioned it, let's just go with the good news first.

And that is Phoenix losing to San Antonio without Webbenyama.

That helps out because the Lakers, I've been talking about this for a while.

I think their best chance to move up to that seven or eight seed is Phoenix losing games. So now the Lakers sit two and a half games behind the Sons. Remember, the Lakers do have the tiebreaker over the Phoenix Sons. And Phoenix has the most difficult schedule remaining in the NBA. Unfortunately, though, there's not that many games left. So the Lakers are going to need the Sons to continue to lose,

and the Lakers will need to pick up wins of their own.

So that was an important result from last night's games.

Phoenix winds up dropping their game.

So that definitely helps out.

The Rockets, they got a win too, increasing the potential hilarity of the rockets passing the Warriors.

Now, Sean, I did see there's some rumblings that maybe Alper and Sengoon could come back if it's for the postseason.

Does that change your thinking?

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