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

Lakers Nuggets tonight. This is a big one. If the Lakers can get a win in Denver, that would certainly be a big deal.

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We'll do a little play-by-play. We'll break down the game as it's happening. We'll take your questions and comments again. 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight. Lakers Nuggets. Then right after the game, we'll have the Lakers Nation.com live post game show. All right, today I'm going to get into the injury report a bit. It shouldn't take too long. And then we'll talk a little bit about the keys to the game. And that'll be about it. If you're looking for like a full length, hour long, really sink your teeth into podcast. Donnie Freeman and I did one of those later in the day yesterday. And that's breaking down everything on the Lakers at the halfway point of the season, which is where we're at right now. We will take a peek in the standings in just a moment. But to break down kind of where the Lakers currently sit at the halfway point, check out that show. If you haven't done so already, it's on the YouTube channel. It's also on the podcast feed over on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcast. Let's get in everything you need to know for tonight's game here.

So the Lakers injury report, and this is part of why I said this won't take too long.

The Lakers injury report is clean with the exception of Austin Reeves and a due thiro, which we already knew.

No one else on the injury report at all.

No Luca Donchich, no LeBron James, no Jackson Hayes, no DeAndre Aiton, nothing.

Everybody ready to go for the Lakers tonight with the exception of Austin Reeves.

And we should be slowly but surely inching closer to an update on Austin Rees, which should

give us a better idea of what the real timeline will look like.

Again, I'm not expecting him back until sometime around the All-Star break, which is still a few weeks away.

But nonetheless, if he comes back a little bit early, I don't think we would certainly complain about that.

But Austin Reeves, do zero both out. Other than that, Lakers injury report looking good now for the denver

nuggets side of things little different um and this is part of why we're going to get into this

um when i get into the uh the keys to the game but the lakers really need to take advantage of

this now denver they are obviously without nikola yokic they've've been without him the entire month of January so far. He's been out

dealing with a bone bruise his left knee, but they also lost Yonis, Valenzhenius, who is their

backup center. They brought him in to be a physical backup big to Yokic, and he normally would

just, you know, absorb all those minutes with Yokic being out,

but that's not going to happen with Valenciunus being out as well.

Now, Aaron Gordon is listed as probable.

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