Hello and welcome to another edition of the Nix Film School pregame show.

My name is Andrew Claudio, aka GMAC, and it's time to preview the next upcoming matchup on Saturday night

against the Los Angeles Lakers, a primetime game on ABC, and we'll see how many primetime players

actually play in this matchup on Saturday. Let's start there with the injury report. So the Lakers,

two big stars, LeBron James, ever heard of

them and Anthony Davis, both questionable for this matchup. They both missed their last game

against the Boston Celtics. I would assume that when you're going to the real garden, that you

actually want to get up for that matchup, also within a couple extra days, rest, and it being Saturday

night. I do not think either of them will miss this game, but they are listed as questionable,

going into this game against the New York Knicks. Jared Vanderbilt, it was actually announced

yesterday. In fact, it was announced during this episode. We got the report of my guest,

are you here in just the second? We got the report that Jared Vanderbilt is out for multiple weeks with a surgery.

Maybe not surgery, a foot injury, but he's out for this game, of course.

We expected to miss several weeks, but he'll undergo further evaluation.

Once a nickel is in a Cam Reddish is out for this game with a right ankle sprain.

Gabe Vincent got surgery,

if you didn't know.

So he is out for,

I believe,

eight weeks.

So those three players will be missing in this matchup,

two of which,

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