Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for the Lakers Nation.com. It is game day. Lakers versus Grizzlies game five tonight.

Going to be a big one joining us today. It's Michelle Beatle from Fanduel. Michelle, thank you so much for coming on and talking some, some playoff action with us.

Thanks for having me. I consider this growth for me coming on Lakers Nation. I'm scared,

but also excited. I got this. Well, we are happy to have you before we get into Lakers and we

dive into the deep end here. What have you enjoyed about the playoffs so far? Man, it's crazy.

It's like, well, I'll say this.

The Lakers Grizzly series has been entertaining.

I thought Sons and Clippers would have been much better, as did everybody.

But of course, the injury bug killed that.

And honestly, the Nix, I think the NICS story has been quite fun to watch, you know,

having lived there for quite some time, it's just watching

7th Avenue shut down on a Sunday night in the first round of the playoffs is just Chef's Kiss.

Like, you cannot beat that energy. So yeah, and you know, Warriors Kings, it's, it's been a good

season for NBA. I thought the playoffs would be good, but I've been very entertained so far.

It certainly has been entertaining. It's been, there have been some great series, like be good, but I've been very entertained so far. It certainly has been entertaining.

It's been there have been some great series, like you said, and I've, I've enjoyed it. The injuries have been frustrating. I mean, Joelle and Beads dealing with an injury. Of course, Janus, we've got Deeran Fox now with the broken finger, John Morant with the hand on it. And of course, Kauai, I mean, it comes out just a little bit ago.

The torn meniscus now, all of this. And I'm seeing the response around social media, around the, you know, the Twitter sphere has been, see, this is proof

load management doesn't work. Right. And is that the appropriate place that we should be be landing

with all this? Because like you said, the playoffs have been a blast so far, but yet we have seen

some pretty high profile injuries. I mean, the list is just a who's who of stars in the playoffs.

The problem is, it's almost as if we cannot remember a time before load management.

Injuries are injuries.

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