Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live podcast. I'm Trevor Lane. And if you're watching us right now over on YouTube, you're on X, you're on Facebook. You can see the gang's all here. We get the whole crew in. In fact, here, let me bring them in right now. We got Ryan Ward is along for the ride as well. Happy to see all of all here for this all right Corey all right

Corey we have hi Ryan okay all right happy to see everybody here we've got

Matt the Optimus Peralta Corey Hansford Ryan Ward Ron Gutterman the reason why

everyone is here we accidentally scheduled our Lakersation.com staff fantasy football draft at the same time as this show.

So we are right now competing against each other in a fantasy draft while we're going to be talking some Lakers basketball.

We're going to do a little bit of multitasking here.

Guys, I hope that we could pull this off without too much chaos.

Can we block?

My pettiness has already begun.

So great.

Well, he's had no.

He doesn't think we can pull this off.

This is all planned by Daniel so he can get the best team possible. And we're scrambling every time. That's what it is. Editor extraordinaire, Daniel Starkand, his evil plan is coming together here. I'm just going to say, if I curse ahead of time, I'm apologizing. Darn it is not a curse, Matthew. Darn it is not. No, no, no, no. You weren't here earlier. Son of a beasting. So we're going to go through a lot of this stuff tonight. We're going to talk, obviously, some Lakers basketball, of course. Everybody coming in, throw in your questions, your comments, we'll get to them. We are going to talk a bit about it. This is LeBron's final season based on the commercial that came out today. The ad from Nike will play that in just a bit. Let me get into a super chat, though, to kick off the show here. Kevin said, since OKC will pay SGA J-dub Chet over 120 million next season,

is there a chance that either Dork Crusoe or Hartenstein becomes available mid-season? Ron

Gutterman, I'm going to come to you. Ron, what do you think about OKC's cap situation?

And could there be opportunity for the Lakers or somebody else to swoop in and maybe grab

one of these, frankly, really good defensive pieces that the Lakers or somebody else to swoop in and maybe grab one of these,

frankly, really good defensive pieces that the Lakers could certainly use.

You know, I think OKC has at least one more year of this core being together.

I think it's 2026, 27 when they get over the second apron.

I think that's when the, I think that's when

the Chet extension kicks in. Yeah, and the J-dub extension kicks in. I think that's when they go

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