Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

We made it.

Somehow, some way, yes, the NBA's regular season, it's here because it's game day.

Lakers, wolves, tonight, let's go.

I am so fired up.

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Here's what we're going to talk about on today's show. First of all, we're going to break down the Lakers matchup tonight, kicking off their season against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Want to talk a bit about that? Then I need to get into something that Austin Reeves said after practice about the beginning of the season and the importance of it. I'll need to dig into that a little bit.

Finally, we're going to take a look at some of the lessons that we learned from preseason in general heading into the regular season. I know we get a lot of people checking back in

this time of year. So if you're coming in, you miss preseason, I'll give you some of the

cliff notes on what we've learned about this Lakers team over preseason play after a fairly uneventful summer for the Lakers.

So a lot to get into today.

Again, I am thrilled.

I can't wait for tonight's game.

I'm so excited.

I hope you guys come join us.

The game time is 7 p.m. Pacific time.

So come join us on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel,

YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation. We're also over on playback, playback.tv slash Lakers Nation.

Hang out with us during the game. We do our play by play. We take questions, comments,

the chat all gets to interact with each other, interact with us. It's a good time. We react to

the game live as it's happening. So come hang out with us during the game. We celebrate together when the Lakers win. We commiserate when they lose. It's a great way to watch the game. And then afterwards, of course, we'll have our Lakersnation.com postgame show, which will be live on the YouTube channel. All right.

Before we get into kind of the fun stuff, injuries, let's get it out of the way.

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