Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane and it's game day. Lakers Suns 5 o'clock Pacific time tonight. We'll see if the Lakers can get back to their winning ways. We'll be live right here on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel doing a little play by play breaking down the game as it happens. Come hang out. It's like a party. Like I always say again, 5 p.m. Pacific time, Lakers see if they can get revenge against the Sons. It was just what, maybe a week and a half ago that the Lakers lost to the Sons. Pretty badly can L.A. get back on the right track in this one. We're going to get into the injury report in just a moment. Plus, we need to talk a little bit about some of JJ Reddick's comments after practice yesterday,

giving us an indication of how the Lakers are going to move

forward and what they're focusing on as they look to break out of this two and three in their last

five game slump that they've been in right now. We'll get in some of the keys to the game as well.

Let's dive right into it starting

with the injury report so right here the lakers uh no austin reeves we found that out uh yesterday

austin reeves or day before yesterday left calf strain he is out now jj reddick did have some

comments we're going to get toJ.'s comments in just a bit

about Austin and the severity of the injury. Unfortunately, spoiler alert doesn't sound like

it's too concerning right now, but he will be out with the left calf strain for tonight's game,

and that will present some challenges for a Lakers team that very much needs creators on the floor

against the Phoenix Suns.

Maxi Kleba with a lumbar muscle strain, he is out.

Once again, I get comments every time Maxi or somebody like that winds up out.

People say, what, how is this guy out?

He doesn't play that much.

How could he possibly hurt?

Remember, basketball players play basketball.

Even if you don't see them in an NBA game,

that doesn't mean Maxi is just sitting on the bench and bubble wrap and there's no possible way he could possibly get injured. These guys still practice. They still scrimmage. They play against each other.

They play and get right games. There's still opportunities for guys to get injured. And that's what's

going on here with Maxi.

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