Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome and to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. I'm Trevor Lane.

Kind of a bonus episode. I'll get into what that's all about in just a moment, but I've got a lot of

things that I want to talk about today. The Lakers, where they're going to finish in the Western

Conference, where they're projected to land, which I think is actually really important for how

we approach this coming season with Los

Angeles Lakers.

So I want to take a look at that.

I also want to talk a bit about Anthony Davis, rumor out there being that LeBron kind

of wants AD to take the reins on this team.

What's the team to follow his lead?

Is this finally going to be Anthony Davis's team?

I want to talk about why that matters for the

Lakers this season and moving into the future as well as for Anthony Davis and his future.

And then lastly, I want to talk about the last roster spot, the 15th and final roster spot.

What can the Lakers do with that? I think it's an important discussion to have when we've got

training camp getting fairly close to wrapping up. The Lakers do start that. I think it's an important discussion to have when we've got training camp

getting fairly close to wrapping up. The Lakers do start preseason action on Monday against the

Sacramento Kings. So I want to talk about that final roster spot as well. A little bit of

housekeeping before we get into that though. As I said, this is a little bit of a bonus episode.

Trippy told plan was to go to five days a week next month, which technically, yeah, it's tomorrow, right? October 1st. In the month of October, we would go back to a five day a week podcast. And honestly, I couldn't wait. I had so many different things I wanted to talk about. So this bonus episode kind of puts us on to that five podcasts a week schedule

just a day early. But from here on out, now that we are in season, we are no longer a three

day a week podcast instead. It's five days minimum. Here's how it works. Monday through Friday,

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