Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane and it's game day. Lakers Rockets, game one of their first round series 5.30 p.m. Pacific time tonight. I'll be live right here on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel doing a little play by play. It's like a party. Come hang out 5.30 p.m. Pacific time tonight. On the show today, We'll get into the injury update and take a look at the keys to victory for the Lakers. I've got more than three in this one because we're going to look at some keys for the whole series. Let's dive right in. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button over on the YouTube channel. A big thank you to Price Picks for sponsoring the show. The Lakers injury report for game

one has just Lucidonjic and Austin Reeves. Obviously a very big loss there on both fronts, but

not unexpected either. There's no surprises on here. Jackson Hayes, not on the injury report,

missed the last few games for the Lakers. He has been a full participant in practice off the injury report completely the last few games for the lakers he has been a full participant in

practice off the injury report completely so the lakers aside from lucca and austin they are good to go now

when we jump up to the houston rockets that's where things get a little bit interesting houston

take a look at this stephen adams f Van Bleet out. We know they're out

for the season. Kevin Durant. That's right. Kevin Durant. Questionable. Need contusion.

Questionable to play in game one. Now, do I buy it? No, not at all. I don't buy this at all that Kevin Durant may not play in tonight's game.

I think Kevin Durant is absolutely playing unless we definitively hear otherwise.

So why would he be listed as questionable, especially with a knee contusion?

This time of year everybody's got something that you could put on an injury

report and make a player questionable. You know, the only thing I can think of is,

could this be a bit of gamesmanship from the Rockets just trying to get the Lakers to think,

hey, the guy that you're preparing for, probably the most, and that's Kevin Durant,

may not even be in the game. But I don't believe for a second that Kevin Durant is not

going to play in game one tonight. But nonetheless, this will be something to monitor he is listed

as questionable going into tonight's game. Okay, what do the Lakers need to do in order to get the

win, not just in this game, but in the series as well.

And I guess before we get into all that, is this a must win?

Is winning game one a must win tonight for the Lakers?

And typically I would say no, especially in, especially on a LeBron James lead team.

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