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

game day. Lakers Wolves, Night Owls. This one's for you, 8 p.m. Pacific time tonight. Believe that's

the latest start time in the NBA. This one's going to be on NBC and Peacock and I'll be live right

here on the Lakers Nation.com YouTube channel breaking down the game as it happens. YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation. It's like a party. And that was a fun party the other day when the Lakers took down the Knicks, an early game for that one. And now we've got a late game for this one tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves. We'll see if the Lakers can make it two in a row against a quality opponent. Now, I'm going to get into the injury report, which has some really important things on it. We'll take a look at the standings. We'll, of course, get into the keys to victory as well. But here's the injury update for the Lakers. So clean injury report, with the exception of LeBron James. LeBron listed as questionable and there's an important

distinction here. So LeBron listed as questionable with left foot arthritis, which is not new,

but also listed is a right hip contusion, which is new. We haven't seen that pop up on the injury

report yet. So LeBron James questionable, as Dan Moiky noted, LeBron did not participate in practice yesterday.

Now, the Lakers regular rotation players didn't do any live work in yesterday's practice.

Instead, they worked on some film work and tried to focus on cleaning up some things defensively.

JJ Reddick did note that they had a stay ready scrimmage that went, and that's for the players who aren't regular rotation guys who aren't playing night in night out, into the bench type players. They put them through a scrimmage situation. They'll play against each other as well as coaches and get out there. That way, they're still in rhythm and they've had live play. So they're not just thrown in, even if they're not playing, you know, every single night for the Lakers. So that's the only live ball action that happened yesterday in practice. But nonetheless, LeBron James was not a participant in practice. And that means that his status for tonight's game is very much up in the air. He was questionable to play against the Knicks on Sunday.

Didn't wind up being a go for that one. We'll see if he plays in this one. Now, I know there's a number of you out there that believe that the Lakers are simply better without LeBron James. We'll see if that gets put to the test here or what that ultimately looks like. I'm not going to go down that path on this show. We've spent plenty of time talking about it already. all we know right now is LeBron is questionable.

Now, for the Wolf's side of things,

their injury report go down that path on this show. We've spent plenty of time talking about it already. All we know

right now is LeBron is questionable. Now, for the wolf side of things, their injury report is basically

clean with the exception of Kyle Anderson who pops up as questionable, but otherwise they have a clean

injury report as well. And the wolves, one of the things to note about them is they've had a very

clean injury season. In fact, if you look at right now, one of the things to note about them is they've had a very clean injury season.

In fact, if you look at right now, the number of possessions that a five-man lineup has played,

far and away, the leader by a huge margin is the wolf starting five because they've all stayed remarkably healthy.

They've played significantly more minutes than any other starting lineup in the NBA.

So the wolves have been a really healthy team on the course of the season.

They've gotten a lot of reps in with their five-man lineup.

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