Hello, everybody. Welcome back 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 plenty to talk about, probably around the Los Angeles Lakers. As always, joining me today from ESPN is Alan Slewa. Alan, always love talking Lakers basketball with you. How are you doing, man?

Yes, sir. Trev, appreciate you having me on, buddy. I'm doing well. Thank you.

You know, Alan, I was getting all set to have this big, you know, excited intro and things are

looking up and the Lakers have won three in a row and everything is great. You know, the sun is

shining.

And then we got the Lakers injury update.

And that's not to say it was terrible and catastrophic, but suddenly the guy who threw the unbelievable pass, Austin Reeves pops up as out for tonight's game against

the Atlanta Hawks with a hamstring issue joined by

Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis as officially out just to run through the whole thing. Troy Brown

Jr. Damien Jones right now listed as questionable. LeBron and Russell Westbrook is probable. So

LeBron back, but Austin Reeves out. Why can't the Lakers seem to have any matter of luck when it comes to injuries? It feels like in any season.

Yeah, I was going to say, it's not just exclusive to this year, right? Last season, it was an issue year before. That was an issue.

And I don't have the answer. I think yesterday was a really cool moment that we really haven't

got too many of those experiences, right? LeBron and Anthony Davis are out of the game.

And a lot of the role players step up. Dennis Schrooter gets you 32. Thomas Bryant has been

fantastic without Anthony Davis trying to just fill in a void and there's

no way to fill in the void for Anthony Davis and then just go down the list, whether it's Austin

Reeves or it's Russ kind of gutting out certain games as well. I know he didn't play in that second

half against Charlotte. So I don't know where his health is. It doesn't seem like they can catch a break.

And I would say that if you look at this year, yes, they have, they started the season

out two and ten.

There was a pretty decent stretch where they weren't playing good basketball, was reminding

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