LeBron James, a shout in history.

The 17 NBA Championship.

Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

It's Game Day.

Lakers versus Pacers, the NBA Cup on the line.

The first ever in-season tournament comes to a conclusion tonight.

But the Lakers take on that team from Pawnee.

We've got a lot to get into today.

I want to talk a little bit about the Lakers-Pacer's matchup.

I want to talk about the NBA in-season tournament in general.

What does it matter?

I also want to get into the mailbag before I get to all of that, though.

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So Lakers, Pacers, tonight, I think this is going to be a crazy, crazy matchup. It, to sum it all up to one thing. It's offense versus defense, right? It's the Pacers, the best offense in the NBA against the Lakers. so I think over the last couple of weeks have been playing essentially as the best defense in the NBA.

The last five games there are second and there's the best offense in the NBA against the Lakers. So I think over the last couple of weeks have been playing essentially as the best

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