Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers Nuggets, 5.30 p.m. Pacific time. I'll be live right here on the Lakersnation.com YouTube channel, breaking down the game, doing a little play-by-play, taking your questions and comments. Come hang out. It's like a party. Hopefully we get to celebrate five straight wins for the Lakers if they get this one

tonight. This is, by the way, the biggest game of the season, and that is not me exaggerating.

I'm going to explain why it is. In just a moment, we're going to get into the injury report.

We'll look at the standings and we'll also get into what it's going to take for the Lakers to get the W in this one. Let's first start with the injury report though.

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Of course, the postseason, everything that's going to happen there. Lots of stuff going on. Then we get into the summer free agency, all of that kind of stuff is going to be happening. So make sure you hit that subscribe button. All right. So Jackson Hayes listed as probable for the Lakers, Maxi Kleba listed as out. The good news first, Marcus Smart is not on the injury report at all, not even mentioned.

That means he's good to go. No questions, nothing. He's fine. Did not play last game against

the Chicago Bulls. I did think the Lakers defense was hurting, missing him. You know, it was a noticeable

absence for the Lakers not having Marcus Smart. So welcome back to Marcus. Now, Maxi Kleba,

JJ Reddick did sound like Maxi's going to miss some time. He's going to be out for a little bit here.

So not as surprised to see him on there. Jackson Hayes, normally, normally we would see probable

and I would go, okay, you know jackson hayes is playing right because

that's what the probable probable designation tends to mean very rarely do you see a player

be listed as probable and not play jackson hayes has done just that the last couple of games

he's been listed as probable and then downgraded to out day of. So Jackson Hayes listed

as probable right now. I can tell you in a matchup against the Denver Nuggets with Nicola

Yokic with Jonas Valchunis, the size that they offer. The Lakers certainly don't want to go

into this game down both Maxie and Jackson Hayes.

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