Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast. What's coming up for the Los Angeles Lakers?

LeBron James took the social media to complain about the schedule, why he's actually right to complain about it.

I'm going to dig into that. Plus, are the Lakers actually better on the defensive side of the ball without Anthony Davis?

You lose a great defensive player and you become a great defense.

How does this make sense?

I want to get into that plus the mailbag and more on today's show.

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Let's get into the latest going on around the Lakers.

Let's first start off with the schedule.

So LeBron James recently took to social media to talk a little bit,

to complain a bit, frankly, about how bad the Lakers schedule actually is. And you know what? He's not wrong. You go over to

Tankathon and you can see that the Lakers have one of the most difficult remaining schedules

in the NBA. Now that in and of itself isn't necessarily a terrible thing. I mean, usually if

you've got a difficult schedule remaining, it means you probably had a fairly easy schedule ahead of time. Now, West teams inherently have a more difficult

schedule than East teams do. That's just a fact due to the imbalance and strengths between the two

conferences. And why I still think that playoff seating, maybe when we add a couple of expansion

teams, the NBA needs to look at changing playoff seating, maybe when we add a couple of expansion teams,

the NBA needs to look at changing playoff seedings to just doing one through, well,

let's say 20 if we're going to keep the playing experience going. And I think that there's pros and cons to it, but I do think that would at least guarantee

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