Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day.

Lakers Bulls 7.30 p.m. Pacific time tonight. We'll see if the Lakers can make it four in a row.

I'll be live tonight on the YouTube channel at 730, breaking down the game as it happens, doing a little play-by-play, taking your questions, your comments.

It's like a party. Come hang out. Lakers Bulls tonight, 7.30 p.m. Pacific time. All right, as always, today's show. We're going to get into the injury update. We'll take a look at the standings. We'll get into the keys to victory for tonight's game and the injury update. Well, there's some stuff on here. Let's get into it. So Jackson Hayes, welcome back. Jack, he is probable to play in tonight's game after missing the Lakers

last one dealing with back soreness again right now. Probable. Keep in mind, we have seen

some Lakers day of the game now, change their injury status. Jackson Hayes was one such player just last game.

So just kind of take it with a grain of salt.

But LeBron James, right hip contusion and left foot arthritis and Maxi Cleba are both listed

as questionable.

Maxi's been out for a bit now with a lumbar back strain.

Will either one go very much up in the air, particularly against a Chicago Bulls team,

that it may make a little bit of sense for the Lakers to try to get their veterans some rest here as well,

and be a little bit cautious because the Bulls are not a very good basketball team.

But as we always say in the NBA, you never know what's going to happen on any given night.

And if you mess around, you can wind up accidentally getting a loss in a game that you really should be winning.

So the Lakers got to be careful with this one, but maybe there's some opportunities here to get guys a little bit of rest,

particularly given how difficult the schedule is.

And we'll take a look at the schedule in just a minute.

Marcus Smart, this one does hurt, or smarts, I suppose.

He is doubtful for this game tonight with a right hip contusion.

So Marcus Smart has become incredibly important for the Lakers.

He's been very impactful, even when the shot is not falling, what he's done defensively has been phenomenal.

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