What We've Learned About Lakers 41 Games, Trade Deadline Goals

Lakers Nation Podcast

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane, and we're halfway there.
0:06.5	We're going to take a look at where the Lakers currently stand now that they've hit the halfway mark, 41 games into the NBA season.
0:14.1	What have we learned? What have we found out about this team?
0:17.0	Plus, the All-Star voting results are in. Luca Donchich and All-Star LeBron James, not yet. That may be coming, though. We'll talk a bit about that, too. Joining me is Donnie Freeman. You may recognize us from the basketball bulletin. Thought we talked some Lakers here. Donnie, thanks for jumping on again. Yeah, sure thing. What do you mean recognize us? You mean me? They recognize you. you're the face of lakers nation man like they
0:38.9	know you well yeah i do think that we're starting to get some recognition over on over on bulletin
0:44.9	as in fact last time we had you on here i had a lot of people saying saying oh i thought i was on
0:49.1	basketball bulletin when i click on this it's right you guys heard it here first this is
0:53.6	Trevor lane from the basketball bulletin.
0:57.2	That's how like Thor of Asgard or something like that.
1:02.5	Like that's what I, Loki of Asgard.
1:04.5	Oh my God.
1:05.0	Trevor of Basketball Bulletin.
1:08.5	Making his rare appearance on Lake.
1:10.6	Rare appearance, rare appearance. Rare rare appearance I'm so rarely here on
1:13.7	lake and I was on here like 10 hours ago all right
1:17.4	we've got videos in last 24 hours I know that's it that's it yeah
1:21.1	we've got a lot to get into here a lot of stuff to talk about about this
1:25.5	lakers team in fact donnie and I were we're talking and I said, yeah, let's just record this because we're talking about all this time. And we're just talking about all this stuff anyway. So let's get into where the Lakers currently stand. So what's interesting, Donnie is I think there's a lot of pessimism around the Lakers right now. And understandably so. They did win last night against
1:44.5	Toronto Raptors, which you love to see. The Lakers right now are 25 and 16. At this stage last
1:50.4	season, this point, 41 games in, the Lakers were 23 and 18. Interestingly, that didn't change
1:58.2	where they were in the standings. The Lakers at this point last year were the six-seat.
2:02.4	Right now, they are the six-seat, despite being two games better than last season.
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