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

Game Day. Lakers Jazz tonight, 5 p.m. Pacific time. Finally, the Lakers are back in action. I say

finally because they haven't played since last Tuesday when they took on this same jazz side in L.A.

We saw the return of LeBron James. Now the Lakers head out to Utah to meet the Jazz on their home turf.

On today's show, I want to get into the injury report.

The Lakers are going to be missing some players or have some players not be available tonight.

I've seen a lot of people asking why.

I want to explain what's going on.

Plus, Utah, their injury report as well.

A look at the standing. Something

happened that was very surprising in the NBA last night, which actually does help the Lakers

out and creates a really interesting situation now in the early stages here of the Western

Conference table. Plus, we want to look at some keys to victory for tonight's game. But before I

get into all of that,

quick reminder, we will be live here tonight, 5 p.m. Pacific time on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel. It's like a party. Do a little play by play, react to the game, take questions and comments. It's a good time. Come hang out with us while we watch the Lakers, take on the Utah Jazz and then right after the game,

we'll have the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show.

All right, let's dive into it. Actually, instead of doing injuries first, let's look at the standings first because I think this

is really exciting, frankly, what's happened.

So last night, big, big upset.

The Sacramento Kings, fueled by big plays by our old friend?

Can we call him old friend, Russell Westbrook?

Friend of me, I guess, kind of.

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