Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane and it's game day. Lakers Cavs 4 p.m. Pacific time tonight. We'll be live on the Lakersnation.com YouTube channel, doing a little play-by-play, break it down the game. As it happens, come hang out. It's like a party. We'll see if the Lakers can continue their winning ways on their road trip. Today we're going to get into the injury report, a little bit of confusion about the Lakers injury report over Austin Reeves and his status. We'll talk about that. What do the Lakers need to do to get the win tonight over the calves? A very injured cabs sign as well, a new injury just coming out for them. We'll talk about it. Plus, what are the X-factors

for this game for LA? All that and a lot more. Joining me is Editor Extraordinaire, Daniel,

thanks for jumping on. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me, as always. Should be a fun one tonight.

Obviously, LeBron, you know, returning to Cleveland's always a good storyline. And then two teams that have been, you know, playing better basketball lately. So, yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah, you know, the Cavs have been a team that's shown some resilience, especially heading into an important trade deadline coming up on February 5th. The Cavs are starting to put together some wins. Had a really impressive comeback win the other day against the Orlando Magic. They looked really good there. The way they bounced back. I thought the Orlando Magic jumped all over the Cavs. They were the aggressive team. They played two in a row against each other. And the Cavs took the first game. Orlando looked determined to make sure that they didn't make it two in a row. The Cavs, they weathered the storm, bounced back, and eventually took the win.

So not an easy game for the Lakers, but the injury update may matter.

In fact, well, it does matter in a big, big way for this game.

But first, before we get to the Cavs injuries, let's talk about the Lakers.

A little weird stuff going on here.

Now, to peel back the curtain, we are recording this the day before the game. So we're

recording this Tuesday, mid-afternoon here. And there was a report from Shams Terrania that

Austin Reeves was coming back to play against the Cavs tonight.

But the Lakers official report says he is not.

Then Shams deleted that tweet and created a lot of confusion out there amongst Lakers fans.

But the official injury report as we are recording this, maybe this changes, Daniel.

I hope it does.

But the official injury report for now says Austin Reeves and Aduthierro are out for tomorrow's game against the Cavs.

It is like that as well on the NBA.com official injury report.

It's got Austin Reeves listed as out.

So my guess, just a mistake on the part of Shams Tarania there, but had a lot of Lakers

fans thinking for a few moments that Austin Reeves was back and then the official report

came out showing that he is out.

Yeah, and there was, I think it was a report earlier in the week that came out that said,

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