Hello Lakers nation welcome in to the Lakers nation dot com podcast I am Trevor Lane exciting time of year we are now one week seven days away from the Lakers kicking off preseason play we've got a bunch of topics we're going to talk about on today's show, De Angela Russell, his Lakers future.

Max Christie, his role this coming season,

Jaylon Hood Chofino.

Is there any hope for the former 17th overall Peg Plus we'll dive into the mailbag.

Joining me on the show today, it is Donnie Freeman. Donnie, how you doing?

I'm doing pretty good.

I finally got my green screen set up for the people and I want to know if you guys like that background,

if you have any recommendations, let me know.

I want to, I want to just set something perfect back there that you know it's just

captivating and all that stuff but otherwise I'm really good and excited to talk Lakers I dig it I think I think it looks good but but everybody let us know in the comment section if you like it or not

podcast listeners I guess I could describe it to you but best bet is just to head over to

YouTube. Ropalanca the other day. There's been a lot of talk about that and we'll get into a lot of the different topics coming around there. But coming up on on Monday we've got Lakers media day. Then we've got training camp for a few days and then the Lakers play a week from today. They're going to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves to open preseason. So we are here. It is time and let's dive into I think a topic that maybe we haven't talked about enough and that's

De Angelo Russell and his future with the Lakers.

There's been a lot of focus on Austin and not all of that is on us. Some of it is but not all of that is on is on us because

every chance he gets to praise somebody. J.J. Reddick has been talking about Austin Reeves. We've talked

a lot about the center position. We've talked a lot about the center position.

We've talked about LeBron.

We've talked about Anthony Davis.

We've talked about Rui Hotchamura

and how his role is going to change.

The Angela Russell kind of becomes the forgotten guy in all of this.

But JJ had some pretty strong comments about Delo and thinking that he can have a career

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