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. We've got a lot to

talk about today. We do have the mailbag to open up with some fan questions and comments. Most

of them stemming from the Lakers Big Win over the Phoenix Suns. Man, was that a fantastic performance, particularly from Austin Reeves, G. Angela Russell and Anthony Davis, welcome back. Way to wake up in the second half, A.D. Lakers do have a tough matchup tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder, who are, as we're recording this, about to drop their game to the L.A. Clippers. So the Lakers can really pick up some ground if they can beat the

thunder in tonight's matchup. So we've got a lot to dive into. Joining me today is Ron Gutterman

from Lakersnation.com. Ron, nine games left. How are you feeling?

Nervous. Every game, it's so rare that you get to this point.

Like, how often is it that the final, like, 18 games of a team schedule or must

wins?

Right.

It's very rare, but at every game we say it, it's like, yeah, the Lakers have to win this

one.

They can't really lose this one.

It'd be very bad if they lost this one.

And it's no different tonight.

And part of that is like the gap, like the gap between what the 12 seed and the 6th seed right now is two games.

And it was even less than that just the other day.

The West is absolutely insane this year.

Seven through seven through 12, when the Thunder officially loose,

seven through 12 will all have 37 losses.

I mean, that is, that is bonkers.

Like we predicted going into the season that we could see something sort of like this and that the

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