Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day, Lakers Thunder, game three tonight, back in L.A. Lakers needing to pick up a win. I'll be live tonight during the game 5.30 p.m. Pacific time. Come hang out, little play by play, break down the game as it's happening. It's like a party. Hopefully we get a Lakers

victory tonight. Got a lot to get into on the show today. We got to get into the injury report. That's where we're going to go right now. We also need to talk a little bit about some of the keys to the game. We'll get into the mailbag, the X factor, all kinds of stuff today. So let's dive in. Vando, Jared Vanderbilt, upgraded from doubtful.

He was doubtful last game, then downgraded you out.

Now upgraded to questionable for tonight's game.

I am still bewildered by the man's bone popped out of his finger,

broke the skin with that grotesque dislocation

that we saw Jared Vanderbilt suffer in game one.

But he is questionable to play.

He apparently has a split.

He may be a go for this game.

I couldn't believe he was even doubtful for last game, but he is questionable to play.

And this one, Luca Donchich remains out. I had some people asking me because ESPN's website was listing him as a game time decision for a little bit. Don't go off. I know a lot of people use that as a resource, but for some reason, their injury reports tend to be very off. There is actually an NBA official injury update page that you can go find on NBA.com

site, which is what's submitted by the teams and everything.

Here, I'll show you what it looks like right now.

Everybody has access to this.

I would recommend checking this out when you're looking for injury updates that are up

to the minute.

The ESPN page, for whatever reason,

it created some false hope for some Lakers fans that reached out to me.

Luca is out for this game, still dealing with that hamstring.

But no sense right now of when a return date may be.

Again, all we know is he said eight weeks was the original timeline.

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