Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in the Lakers Nation.com podcast. It's game day. Lakers Rockets

tonight, 7.30 p.m. Pacific time. Come hang out during the game. YouTube.com slash

Lakers Nation or over at playback.com. We'll have our play-by-play, our reaction, our live chat,

all of that happening. It's a lot of fun. It's like a party, and we'll see if the Lakers can cement the third seat in the Western

Conference.

So again, hang out tonight.

7.30 p.m. Pacific time will be live then right after the game on the YouTube channel.

YouTube.com slash Lakers Nation for the postgame show.

So today, we need to talk a little bit about the game that's coming up.

I've got some mailbag questions to get into.

We need to take a look at some rotations for the Lakers as well.

Lots of stuff for us to talk about on this one.

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So the Lakers take on the Houston Rockets tonight. And you know what? The West,

it is a mess. The West is an absolute, we're going to get into the standings in just a minute.

The West, it is, it's a, I'm breaking my brain trying to figure out all the different possibilities

of where things can go in the Western Conference. We saw the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Memphis Grizzlies last night.

We'll take a look at that and kind of how everything's breaking down.

But the math is very simple, fortunately, for the Lakers.

For much of the Western Conference, everything is still up in the air.

For the Lakers, it's very, very easy.

All they have to do is win one game of their final two, the Lakers are the three seed. Does not matter what anyone else does in the Western Conference.

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