Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. It's game day. Lakers Heat 430 Pacific time this afternoon. The Lakers badly need to get back on track. I want to give a shout out to bet you as for sponsoring this video. I am Trevor Lane. You guys can find me on X at Trevor underscore Lane on Instagram, threads and blue sky at Trevor Lane NBA.

So a lot to get into on today's show.

I want to take a look at course at the matchup between the Lakers and the Miami Heat.

I think it's going to be a really close one.

Also need to get into a few updates, an injury update, a very important injury update,

specifically on Jared Vanderbilt.

We'll talk about that and what the fallout means for the Lakers.

Plus a schedule update.

That's right.

The Lakers schedule, it has changed.

We'll take a look at what happened last night on the schedule front.

Plus, I want to talk about where is this team now?

We are officially 25% of the way through the schedule front. Plus, I want to talk about where is this team now?

We are officially 25% of the way through the NBA season, actually a little bit more than that.

So what have we learned?

What do we know about this team from here?

What are these Lakers?

I want to get into that as well.

To start things off, though,

let's take a quick peek tonight's game right now as I'm recording

this.

The Miami Heat are a two point favorite over the Lakers over on BetUS.

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