LeBron James, a shout in history.

17 NBA championship.

Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

It's game day.

Lakers versus Magic tonight kicking off a four game road trip for the lakers hopefully

they can get a win against orlando i'm going to talk a little bit about tonight's game what

we can expect who's playing who's not yikes both teams dealing with a bunch of injuries we'll talk

a little bit about what we hope to see out of the lakers in this one have a a few news items to get into as well. We need to talk about the minutes. There are some of the national media that are losing their minds over the minutes that LeBron is playing, the minutes that Anthony Davis is playing. Could there possibly be a reason for that? I'm going to dive into that. And if it's something need to worry about moving forward. Plus, we're going to get into the mailbag, some of the fallout from the

Lakers last win and what it can mean moving forward for the team. And we need to kick things off

with this. You know, the NBA's in-season tournament. Some calling it the mid-season tournament, focusing on mid.

It kicked off last night.

All the games, the tournament got going.

And look, let me see this.

I am not anti-in-season tournament.

In fact, no, it's the opposite.

I've been on the side of the in season tournament.

I've been telling people to chill, people who are being negative nancy's, not in favor of the

tournament, trashing the tournament before anything's even started, saying this is dumb, we're not going to pay attention to it we're not going to watch it all that sort of stuff nobody's going to care about the end season tournament i've been saying give it a shot give it a chance and to be fair i thought we had some pretty good games i don't know so i saw some people on social media saying they felt like the intensity picked up a little bit

because of the tournament.

I don't know.

Maybe it did.

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