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

game day. Lakers Jazz tonight, 6 p.m. Pacific time. The Lakers, who have had some time off now,

back onto the court and hopefully put another one in the win column. We're going to go over a

surprising injury report for this game. The Lakers will not be at 100%.

Plus, we'll take a look at the Jazz Injury Report as well.

And a little bit of news to get into Bruce Brown.

How close was he actually to becoming a Los Angeles Lakers?

Should the Lakers remove their NBA Cup championship banner now that the NICs are refusing to put up theirs.

We'll talk about those things as well.

Before we get into a quick reminder, it'll be live tonight, 6 p.m. Pacific time right here on

the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel doing a little play-by-play, breaking down the game.

As it happens, come hang out.

It's like a party.

Lakers Nation live during Lakers versus Jess. Again, 6 p.m. Pacific time. Come hang out for that. All right. Let's get right into it. The injury report from the Lakers. Huh. Well, Austin Reeves out. We knew that. We knew going in, Austin was going to be out his earliest possible return. J.G. Reddick made it pretty clear he'd just be out a week when that injury was announced at the end of last week. So his potential return could be for Saturday against the Clippers. Maybe they said him for that one still, but he's dealing with a left cap straying. We knew he would be out for this game. So he's not the surprise. No, no, no, no, no. The surprise, Gabe Vincent, low back soreness is questionable. And DeAndre Aton left elbow soreness out for this game. So that's obviously a big, I mean, we're talking about the Lakers being down two starters plus a key reserve in

Gabe Vincent.

That's a lot of players out right there for the Lakers.

You're starting center.

You're starting two guard and your backup guard all out for this game.

Well, Gabe, I should say questionable for this game.

But Aitin and Austin already being listed as out.

Now, it is the Utah Jazz. As I'm recording this, the Lakers are still a seven and a half point favorite, but not ideal to be going into Utah without Dandre Aton and without Austin Reeves. That's not going to be an easy challenge for the Lakers to deal with. Now, what we saw the Lakers do last game was they just started Marcus Smart in the place of Austin Reeves, and I would assume they will do the same thing in this one tonight, which means we will see a starting lineup of Luca Donjic, Marcus Smart, Ruey Hutchimura, LeBron James, and then it would be Jackson Hayes slotting it at the starting center spot. We're going to get into some other ways that this could change the Lakers rotation

tonight without D'Andre Aiton and why it could actually be a really good thing for

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