Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers Wizards 4 p.m. Pacific time tonight. Can the Lakers get back to their winning ways as they're apparently never-ending road trip? Rolls on eight-game road trip and it's now gotten to the point where Luca Donchich has no idea where they're going next. If you saw that interaction between Luca and Donovan Mitchell after the Lakers last game.

Unfortunately, a blowout loss to the cab.

So the Lakers' last game, unfortunately a blowout loss to the cab. So the Lakers need to get back on track tonight. Get a win in Washington against the Wizards. I'll be live doing a little play-by-play, breaking down the game as it happens. Come hang out. It's like a party. Hopefully it'll be a bit more of a celebratory party tonight against the Wizards. Now, we've got to get into the injury report. Really big injury

report for this one. Somebody just might be coming back tonight, but unfortunately somebody

else might be on the way out. We'll take a look at that. Some exciting news for Jackson

Hayes. Plus, we'll get into the keys to victory for the Lakers. Let's dive into it. We're going to start with the injury report here. And there it is. Austin Reeves listed as questionable. Unfortunately, Luca Donchich also listed as questionable. Let's start with Luca, who fell off the court in Cleveland last game. If you saw this, the court in Cleveland

has a big drop off on the side of it. So the court actually sits a bit higher up than the floor

around it. This is the only arena in the NBA. It's like this. In fact, Lucas injury has now

sparked the NBA to have a conversation about what can be done about this floor. We have

seen other injuries. Drew Smith suffered an injury last year on that court.

So the NBA taking a look at it,

trying to figure out what's going on and what they can do.

To fix this, Luca suffering this ankle injury,

not good.

He was able to finish the game.

So I'm optimistic that'll play in this,

but you never know with ankle injuries.

You go hop on a plane afterwards. It swells up. It would be, man, wouldn't it just be the Lakers season if Austin Reeves comes back and the same game, Luca Donchich is now out? The Lakers have had what's been maybe two games. off top my head, I think maybe two games

that the Lakers have actually had

their full complement of rotation players, like players that if everybody was healthy, would be playing available to them. And that could happen tonight if both Luca and Austin play. A Duthuro is out for this game. But as a a rookie i wouldn't consider him necessarily to be part of

the rotation at this stage of the season anyway but he would be out but i would consider this

the lakers being at full strength or at least in terms of their rotation players should both lucca and

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