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

game day. Lakers Spurs 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight. The knockout stage of the NBA Cup tournament is

here. I'm going to break down what that all means for the Lakers, what the NBA Cup tournament

looks like. A very important injury, injury report for both sides.

I'll get into that as well strategically.

What do the Lakers need to do?

What are the keys to victory in this one?

All that and more on today's show before I get to it, come join us tonight.

7 p.m. Pacific time.

We'll be live right here on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel, as well as for the last time on playback.

If you didn't hear the news, playback is shutting down, unfortunately.

Very sad about that, been doing play-by-play over there for years now at this point.

It was one of the early adopters of playback in the early going.

Fear not, of course, the Lakers Nation.com live play by play will continue on

the Lakersnation.com YouTube channel as well as our other social platforms. So you can still find us there.

Still come hang out during the games. Like I said, it's like a party. And the party, it's not stopping.

We're going to keep rolling. But playback will be no more by the time

the Lakers play again. So this will be the very last Lakersnation.com game on playback for the time

being, unless it comes back in some other form. But tonight, 7 p.m. Pacific time, we'll be right here

on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel. Come hang out. We'll have our play-by have our play by play our live reaction take questions comments all of that sort of stuff should be a good time all right

let's get into this before we get into the injury report why does this game matter why is this such a big

deal in the NBA cup tournament and and all of that well before we even get into the NBA cup tournament

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