Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. It's game day. Lakers,

Raptors tonight, 430 Pacific Time, I guess this afternoon, 430 Pacific Time, another early start for the Lakers.

And joining me today, it's Luca Rosano from Raptors Nation to help give us a little bit

insight into what to expect from the Lakers opponent tonight. Luca, thanks so much for jumping on.

I appreciate it.

Trevor, thanks so much for having me.

Always a pleasure to be over here on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel.

Keep up the great work, by the way.

You're crushing it.

Well, you do the same.

And everybody, if you want all the details and intel on the Raptors,

make sure you guys do go check

out the raptors nation youtube channel you can also go check out raptors nation.com great great stuff

that they're doing over there so look a let's talk about this game tonight we've got lakers

raptors um you know this is the lakers have lost two in a row they lost to the sons and the calves now to start this five game road trip so this is the Lakers have lost two in a row. They lost to the Sons and the Cavs now to start this five-game road trip. So this is the middle of the trip for the Lakers. What should they expect to see from the Raptors tonight? And I guess, I guess, let's start with who should they expect to see? What does the Raptors injury report look like currently? I know they've dealt with some issues there. yeah. So unfortunately, Scotty Barnes, the big injury news. He's going to be out for at least the next three weeks with a right orbital fracture. So Lakers fans don't have to worry about going up against Scotty Barnes. RJ Bear, he's back. He's been playing in the last couple of games. He's looking sharp. In terms of a manual quickly, he remains doubtful. So we'll see if that changes closer to a tip-off time. And the Raptor's first round pick of the 2024 draft, Kobe Walter is listed as questionable. So that's promising. That's the closest he's been to returning as he's working his way back from a shoulder sprain. So that's the latest.

And then in terms of Bruce Brown and Kelly Olinick, they do remain out.

So the Raptors, they will be short-handed.

But what I'll say, Trevor, is this has still proven to be a tough out.

This is a team that has been playing incredibly hard.

And you look at their record, it is is one and four but they went toe to toe

to toe with the Denver nuggets the other night they could have won that game as that went into

overtime and then even against charlotte it got ugly early in the first quarter but the raptors

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