Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome to the Lakersnation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane. You can find me on

Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane over on Instagram at Trevor Lane, NBA. The Lakers picked up that

big win over the Brooklyn Nets a couple of nights ago, and now they don't play again until they

take on the Detroit Pistons on Friday. So that means we get to live in victory for the entire

week, which is kind of a nice perk and what has frankly been a difficult season for the Lakers. But they got that win. Doesn't mean there's no news around the Lakers, though. There's always something going on. And we've got a little bit of an update on when the Lakers will finally make a decision on whether or not they want to bring in some other free agents, whether they want to make a trade. We've got a little bit of intel on that from Mark Stein, plus some news about a specific player that the Lakers could be targeting in free agency. And I've got some fan questions and comments. We need to get into it. And, of course, that will springboard us into a lot of different topics swirling around the Los Angeles Lakers. So let's go.

Let's get to it.

First topic for today,

the Lakers waiting for the return of Thomas Bryant and Dennis Schroeder before they

make any decisions in terms of what they want to do with their roster.

Now,

I know,

fans,

if you're watching this over on the YouTube channel,

hopefully you're a subscriber,

you've also turned on notifications, you might right now be tempted to throw whatever device

you're using to watch this, whether it's your phone, whether it's your laptop, a tablet,

whatever.

Podcast listeners may be doing the same thing.

Maybe you're sitting in traffic right now and you're angrily, angrily honking your horn at this news that the Lakers are going to wait to get something done. I get it. Fans want the Lakers to do something right now. Fix this problem. Make this team better. Don't put us through everything you put us through last season. Yes, the win over the Brooklyn Nets was great, but this team still has a lot of

deficiencies. I've been saying since last summer, they're screaming for a trade. So why are they not

getting this done and making a move happen? Why would you wait for Thomas Bryant and Dennis

Schrooter to return? Well, before I even get into that, the good news, I think Thomas Bryant

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