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

My name is Trevor Lane, and it's Game Day. Lakers Mabs 4.30 p.m. Pacific Time coming out with me tonight on the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation or over on playback.com.

Big game tonight. I know the focus. It's on Luca and him returning into into Dallas and we'll talk about that, of course, but

this is one that the Lakers

simply must win.

I'm going to get into what the Lakers need to do tonight

against the Mavs, plus we're going to

get into the mailbag as well and all the

fallout from last night's disaster

against the thunder. Before I do,

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All right, so the Lakers headed at Lakers to take on the Mavs.

They are now currently the three seed in the West.

So that hasn't changed, but just one game up in the lost column now on the Clippers,

the Nuggets, the Warriors, and the Memphis Grizzlies.

The wolves did lose last night.

So that's a little bit of help there.

The magic number for the Lakers, it remains too.

They must win two games to lock in the three seed.

One game in order to guarantee that they do not fall

into the play in so that's currently the math for the lakers have to win two in order to lock up the

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