Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakers Nation.com. You're home for everything. Lakers and it's game day. We've got Lakers Pistons tonight. I know the Pistons have not been a great team over the course of the season, but this is actually a really important game for the Lakers. In fact, these next two back to back, Pistons Jazz. We've got the Utah Jazz tomorrow night on the road.

Important games. The Lakers have got to find ways to pick up wins. I'm going to get into why in just a moment. We need to talk a bit about Spencer Dinwiddie on today's show as well. The Lakers new rotation, what Darvinham has revealed and how I think all of that is going to shake out. We also need to talk about the Lakers summer plans, this star hunting strategy.

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Let's dive into everything.

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Spencer Dinwiddie, the newest Laker, had his first practice yesterday. That's

right. We're talking about practice. Now, the Lakers and most NBA teams, they don't practice very often.

I know that sounds weird. We're used to it, right? People growing up in sports, what do you do a lot?

You practice when I was really, really getting into soccer when I was

in my teens and I was playing a ton. I would have multiple games every single weekend. I would have

practice four or five nights a week. That's what we're used to. That's not the way professional

sports go. And if you look at the Lakers this season, they've only had probably a handful of

practices at this point because they typically only practice when they have multiple days in a row

off and that only happens every so often during the NBA calendar. Usually if there's only a day off

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