Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers versus Hawks 5 p.m. Pacific time tonight. The Lakers won five in a row. We'll see if they can make it six. Lots of stuff to get into today. We'll take a look at the injury report. The keys for tonight's game if the Lakers want to get the win. But first quick reminder, I will be live 5 p.m. Pacific time for the game, doing a little play-by-a-play, breaking things down, taking your questions and comments. So come hang out thelakersnation.com YouTube channel. It's like a party. A lot of fun for us. Then after the game, we'll do the standard post gamegame show. So please stick around for that as well.

Again, Lakers Hawks tonight, let's just get into this.

Let's do it here.

The injury update.

So the Hawks injury report, as I'm recording this here Friday evening, is not in yet.

The Hawks will be on the second night of a back-to-back.

They played last night and they did lose last night in a NBA Cup game,

tournament game against the Toronto Raptors.

So the Hawks will be on the second night of a back-to-back.

It is a home back-to-back.

They're not flying from Toronto all the way down to Atlanta.

So it is a home back-to-back. The Hawks Toronto all the way down to Atlanta. So it is a home

back to back. The Hawks now four and five on the season and they lost last night to the Toronto

Raptors. Did not shoot particularly well against the Raptors. So I mean, could there be some

regression coming there for them? Maybe. Maybe. I think the L will, don't look at, let me put it this way,

don't look at the, the Hawks losing to the Raptors,

so I know a lot of people don't hold in very high esteem.

I think the Raptors are probably a little bit better this season

than they were last season.

There's still some hangover from last year where people think there's terrible.

But the Hawks losing to the Toronto Raptors, just don't look at that and think, okay, that's an indication that this is a terrible team and this should just be a gimmey win for the Lakers. And I do think, you know, they shot 34% from the field last night. They shot 24% from three and I'm rounding up to get there. They had a

cold shooting night. There's some things the Lakers can do defensively, certainly against this

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