Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

My name's Trevor Lane, and it's game day. Lakers bucks, another early one, 4.30 p.m.

Pacific time. We'll see if the Lakers can get back to their winning ways coming off of a brutal,

avoidable, inexcusable loss to the Brooklyn Nets in their last outing.

The playoff picture, it's getting a bit closer. The Lakers

need to pick up some wins here, but they're just starting their guntlet of a schedule,

six games, all part of a back-to-back, three sets of back-to-backs in eight nights. This is

just the beginning tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks. So on today's show, we're going to take a look at the Lakers injury report, what the Lakers need to do in order to get the win. Obviously, the injury

report's going to be a big, big factor given what this team has been dealing with over the last

couple of weeks in terms of the injury front. We also are going to bring on Ty Windish of the

Eurostep podcast, a Milwaukee Bucks podcast, and he's going to tell us a bit about the

buck side of things, including some conversation about our old friends, Kyle Kuzma, and

that's right, Darvin Ham, hands in pockets.

Darvin Ham, we'll talk a bit about him as well, and we'll open up the mailbag.

All right, let's start things off with our friends over at Bet, US.

Right now they have the Lakers as a five and a half point underdog tonight against the

bucks.

Now, I'll be honest, I'm actually a little bit surprised.

The bucks aren't a heavier favorite.

Now, the bucks are coming off of three straight losses, but to me, that just means we're

going to get a very focused and very upset buck squad that just lost at the buzzer to the Indiana

Pacers in their last outing. Tyrese Halliburton hit an insane three, got fouled, and then won

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