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Hey everyone. Welcome to locked on Lakers for Tuesday Brian Kiminetski and a Kiminetski the player LeBron James made it through practice on Monday without seeming to have any set facts.

But what about GM LeBron James? How much work does he think this roster needs? He talked about that on Monday and we'll talk about it next on locked on Lakers.

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We will get to LeBron James GM LeBron James of course Andy LeBron James is not the GM of the Los Angeles Lakers certainly not this season. No only when things go well.

Yes, we will see there's one of my favorite things about LeBron. I remember you and I debated this on a recent show. The idea that LeBron shies away from the idea that he's actively involved with front office moves. He doesn't shy away from it if it's working out great. Yes, I should have been more specific.

We'll talk about that in a second because LeBron was asked about the state of the team how they look because it is deadline week the deadline is Thursday I believe noon Pacific time. You got to have all your trades done your ducks in a row.

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So we'll get to that in a second because LeBron was asked directly about it. But first is LeBron on the floor because he played 39 minutes I believe it was against the 40 we're rounding up against the nicks on Saturday.

And this was his first game back after the knee injury everybody agreed that was probably more than anyone wanted. And on Monday after practice LeBron said that he doesn't believe he had me setbacks he thinks he's okay and seemed Andy to indicate that he expects to play Tuesday night against Milwaukee in a marquee nationally televised game.

Yeah, first of all those are often the type of games that get LeBron to show up in the first place. But you know if there's any type of doubts I think the tie goes to how many people will get to watch him.

But it sounded to me like LeBron was fairly confident he would be able to play I think this has been a season that I mean really good argue LeBron's unfortunately the majority of his time with the Lakers he's learned that there are no promises when it comes to health his own or teammates.

He talked about how actually he's never been part of a season where injuries have played such a toll but you know he acknowledged there's been a lot going on this year that's made it very difficult for the team to assess where they are and you know exactly how to do the necessary work but I if nothing else feel confident LeBron's going to be out there today.

Yeah and if he doesn't play you know against the box there's certainly a reasonable chance he comes back and plays Wednesday against Portland in a game again these the Portland game as we've noted as these games come up the Portland game is more important than a Milwaukee game the Milwaukee game is higher profile it would certainly be a major confidence booster for the Lakers to win especially we know the box put up I think 140 points on the Clippers.

Sunday night I mean they they just port it on 130 140 points something like that and given the way the Lakers have struggled on defense I would put past them to do it again.

So you know it would mean a lot for the Lakers to play a good game on Tuesday and even to win that but Wednesday is the one that really matters because Portland sucks and you can't give away games against bad teams at this point in the season.

Other housekeeping notes Carmelo Anthony is not going to play Tuesday night against Milwaukee Frank Vogel ruled him out of this one did not necessarily though rule him out of Wednesday's game I don't know if he'll play or not but the fact that he isn't being ruled out is a good sign that over the long term this is probably not a really serious injury.

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