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

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all of that happening. It's a lot of fun. It's like a party. And we'll see if the Lakers can cement the third seat in the Western Conference. So again, hang out tonight. 7.30 p.m. Pacific time will be live then right after the game on the YouTube channel. YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation for the postgame show. So today, we need to talk a little bit about the game that's coming up.

I've got some mailbag questions to get into.

We need to take a look at some rotations for the Lakers as well.

Lots of stuff for us to talk about on this one.

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So the Lakers take on the Houston Rockets tonight. And you know what? The West,

it is a mess. The West is an absolute, we're going to get into the standings in just a minute.

The West, it is, it's a, I'm breaking my brain trying to figure out all the different possibilities

of where things can go in the Western Conference. We saw the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Memphis Grizzlies last night. We'll take a look at that and kind of how everything's breaking down. But the math is very simple, fortunately, for the Lakers. For much of the Western Conference, everything is still up in the air. For the Lakers, it's very, very easy. All they have to do is win one game of their final two, and the Lakers are the three-seat. not matter what anyone else does in the Western Conference. If the Lakers win tonight, say they are the three seed. And I would highly recommend winning tonight because if they do that, then the Lakers can take Sunday's game against the Portland Trailblazers in Portland off. They can give their guys rest. They can play the end of the bench players and then

get ready for the postseason. So it would be nice to get a win over the Rockets tonight. Right now,

the Lakers are nine and a half point favorite over Houston. You might say why. The Rockets are

the two seed. They're a good team. Well, that's just it. They are locked in to the two seed.

So here is the injury report right now for both sides here.

We've got the Lakers currently with LeBron James and Maxi Kleba.

Well, Maxi Klebe listed as out. LeBron James listed as probable. And that's it.

So that's a pretty clean injury report right there for your Los Angeles Lakers.

Again, LeBron, that's it.

Everybody else is playing.

Maxi Kleba, it's looking more and more like we won't see him during the regular season.

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