What's At Stake In The Next Few Weeks, Buyout Market, Beverley Vows To Knock Lakers Out Of Playoffs

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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There is so much riding on the next few weeks for the Lakers, including both the fate of the season as well as LA's options this summer. Plus, is there anyone left worth looking at on the buyout market? And Patrick Beverley vows to knock the Lakers out of the playoffs with the Bulls while Russell Westbrook joins the other LA team. Trevor Lane and Sean Davis discuss... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome in to the Lakersnation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane. You can find me on
0:07.0	Twitter at Trevor underscore Lane over on Instagram at Trevor Lane, NBA. All-Star weekend is behind us.
0:13.3	I snuck in a little family vacation, but now back and ready for what's going to be the most
0:18.8	important stretch of the Lakers season by far.
0:22.6	LeBron James even called it perhaps the most important regular season games of his career.
0:27.7	23 games left the Lakers need to make a push to make the playoffs.
0:32.6	If they get in, who knows, anything can happen.
0:34.8	I think this team is interesting.
0:36.1	They've got talent, but they've got to start stacking up wins and they've got to do it right now. Joining me today is Sean Davis from lakersnation.com. Sean, how are you doing? And thanks for holding down the fort yourself as well as a number of other Lakers Nation staffers and Scorpio Sky as that that hopped in while I was out.
0:55.1	Yeah, absolutely.
1:02.3	Trev, glad you got some fun family vacation time where it's warm, not in the cold.
1:11.5	But yeah, no, glad that we are inching closer and closer to actual basketball games being played and not whatever happened Sunday night.
1:16.3	I'm yeah, okay, but we can talk about that for a minute.
1:17.2	The All-Star game.
1:21.7	I actually, I was back from the, you know, we were in Orlando.
1:24.6	We were visiting all the different theme parks and doing all of that, doing, you know, the Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios and all that kind of stuff.
1:27.7	We were back in time to see the All-Star game and I put it on and it really didn't keep my attention. But like, and this is what I do. And I was having a hard time really paying attention to it. Like the players didn't look like they really cared to be out there. The Elam ending didn't matter that much because there was such a big lead heading out of the third quarter. It was not a good look for the NBA, I thought. This All-Star game just felt, just felt non. Usually you get the non-competitive start to the game. And then somewhere around the middle of the third quarter, both teams really turn it on and it
2:01.0	can become fun, which is what we've seen in the last couple of years.
2:03.5	Not the case this year.
2:04.6	What went wrong?
2:05.8	Does the NBA need to change the All-Star game?
2:09.2	I feel like we're just going to keep playing with it in this circle of like do the NBA
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