Hello, Lakers Nation. It's game day. Lakers versus Jazz tonight, 7.30 p.m. Pacific.

Hope you come join us over on playback.com and the Lakers Nation YouTube channel,

YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation. This is the Lakers Nation podcast. I'm going to preview

tonight's match up. I'll also get into something going on with the Lakers rotation, DeAndro Russell, the numbers that he's putting up as a sixth man for the Lakers. We'll chat a bit about that. Plus, we need to take a look at the standings, which we're going to get to in just a moment. For anybody who's new to the show, my name is Trevor Lane. You guys can find me over on X at Trevor underscore Lane over on

threads on Instagram at Blue Sky at Trevor Lane, NBA. Go check me out in those places. All right,

let's get into the standings. Something kind of cool happened last night. Some things broke in

the Lakers favor. So you can see the Lakers are now, what do you know?

Look at that.

The Lakers are the three seed in the Western Conference.

Yes, it's early.

Yes, the Lakers have had a light schedule.

I understand that.

They've dealt with some teams that have been dealing with a lot of injuries.

The Philadelphia 76ers without their main pieces in place.

They got the Memphis Grizzlies with a bunch of guys out.

I know.

But guess what?

They can't control the teams that are put in front of them.

They just have to get in there and take care of business.

And they have been longest winning streak in the west right now they've

won five games straight weird season right three and oh to start the season against three really good

teams and people started to say oh are the lakers for real here what's going on then they went on

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