Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for LakersNation.com. Today, we're going to talk Lakers X factors.

What is it that the Lakers need in order to get over the top and win an 18th NBA championship this year?

I'm going to talk about a number of different topics as we go through.

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But, you know, one of the things that we do when we're looking at what it's going to take

for a team to hit its ceiling is sometimes we do this thing where it's August

and we get overly optimistic about what it's going to take for a team to win a championship,

for a team to get to where it wants to go. And I can say this honestly, and it feels great

to be able to say it. I think this Lakers team is a championship caliber team. Now, I'm going to be overly optimistic.

I've got Lakers Nation on my shirt.

My background is purple and gold, right?

I am going to be biased.

There's no question there.

I'm not coming to this as an unbiased third party or anything like that.

So when I say the Lakers are a championship caliber team,

of course, my own bias is going to be mixed in there.

This is Lakers Nation after all. But I also think that that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm wrong here.

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