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

Game Day. Lakers Raptors tonight or this afternoon, kind of 4.30 p.m. Pacific time. Whatever that

qualifies as, I'll probably just say tonight, but the Lakers take on the Raptors looking to get back

to their winning ways. Don't forget, we will be live during the game, 4. p.m. Pacific time. We'll be live breaking everything down, doing a little play-by-play, talking hoops, taking your questions and comments. It's like a party. That's going to be happening right here on thelakersnation.com YouTube channel. So come hang out and then right afterwards. We'll have thelakersnation.com live postgame show. Lots of stuff to get into on today's show.

A really big injury update on both sides for both the Lakers and the Raptors.

Some key players are going to be out of action for each team.

I'm going to get into that.

The keys to win this game.

Plus some stuff going on around the NBA that maybe could, should

involve the Los Angeles Lakers, Janice Anta Coupo, Chris Paul, those situations. I want to wrap

up the show talking about that and how I think the Lakers could get involved and should they

get involved. Let's get into it here. Again, don't forget to subscribe to the channel.

Turn on those notifications as well. Let's start with the injury update. This is where we're at.

The big, I mean, not maybe a surprise, but Luca Donchich will be out listed as out for personal

reasons. And this is the best version of that his child being born so luca we knew this is coming

at some point and now he will be out for personal reason now i would assume this also means

that lucca will miss tomorrow's game remember tonight's game is the first of a back-to-back they

played tomorrow in boston i would assume lucca will also be out for that game. So no Luca donchage tonight for the Lakers. Yes, that hurts, but it's the birth of a child. I mean, you're not going to tell the guy to come play basketball and miss his child being born. So big congratulations there, of course, and the Lakers are going to have to get by

without Luke. And I'll talk a little bit about how they can do that and we get into the keys to

victory. But Marcus Smart also out, lower back injury management instead of being listed as back

spasms, now being listed lower back injury management out for this game. And this will now be his fourth

game out of action for the Lakers. And that's certainly a loss, especially in a game where you

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