Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Eve, maybe, depending on when you're watching this, the Lakers and Nix play each other so early on Sunday that I'm going to publish this Saturday evening to give people a little more time to watch it. So whenever you're watching this, the Lakers play the NICS, 12.30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday. I'll be live right here on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel for the game. Come hang out. It's like a party. We'll do a little play-by-play, break down the game as it happens. And we'll see if the Lakers can pick up a win over an opponent that is absolutely on a role right now in the Eastern Conference. It's not going to be easy. The Knicks are playing their best basketball of the season, but the Lakers are also doing some really interesting things right now. In fact, I want to get into some fun with stats, some kind of weird stats around the Lakers right now, both positive and negative to dive into. Plus, we'll look at the injury reports, some really important things going on

for both teams there. We'll also take a look at the standings and get into the keys to victory

for the game. So let's dive in. We're going to start with the injury update and see where things

are at for both clubs right now. Now, the Lakers, of course, have had a number of injuries.

I saw LeBron James Maxie Kleba and DeAndre Aiton, All-Miss last game, which was a win against the Indiana Pacer's.

Luca Dachia dropped 44 points, also had five stocks.

How about that, Luca?

Five stocks, steals and blocks combined.

He was incredible.

Well, for tomorrow's game or today's, you know, whenever you're watching,

Lakers, Knicks, LeBron and Maxie are questionable. LeBron listed with a left elbow contusion

and left foot arthritis. Now that left elbow contusion came in the last game that the

Lakers played prior. That was against Denver prior to the game against the Pacers.

Maxie has been dealing with a back issue for the last few games. And actually, I thought not having

Maxie against Denver was kind of a big deal. It's something that did set the Lakers back because

they were down to just one center available with no D'Andre Aten as well. It was only able to

play in five minutes for that game. Speaking of D.A., DeAndre Aidan, completely off the injury report. Did not play against the Pacers, but not on the injury report at all now. So not questionable, not probable. No, that just means he's in. That's it. DeAndre Aden will be back for the Lakers against the Knicks. Bronny James and a douthero, boy, I wanted to see a Duthero get some run the end of that blowout win over the Pacers.

But a due Thero assigned to the South Bay Lakers, so that means that neither one of them will be available to be called upon by the Lakers.

Now, JJ sounded fairly confident.

LeBron would be good to go for this game against the Knicks.

So I'm going to assume that he is going to play.

Maxi, I think, is more of a true kind of up in the air type of thing.

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