Lakers vs Rockets Reaction: Playoff Seeding LOCKED! Who Will LA Play?

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The Lakers got the win they needed over the Rockets, now who will they take on in the playoffs? Trevor Lane look at what's happened and where this team is heading....

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0:00.0	Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in to the Lakers Nation.com live postgame show.
0:06.2	The Lakers get the win over the Houston Rockets, 14109 final score.
0:13.4	And that means now we know the Lakers for sure have locked in the three seed in the NBA's Western Conference.
0:22.1	We'll take a look at what that means for the Lakers, who they're going to play in the first
0:25.9	round.
0:26.2	It's not for sure yet, but now we can narrow it down because of the other results that have
0:30.3	happened around the NBA.
0:31.6	But before we get to that, before we get ahead of ourselves on that. Let's talk about this.
0:38.8	The Lakers, when we started this season, we started this season, it was a brutal summer.
0:45.4	We saw a Lakers team that did nothing over the summer.
0:49.2	They drafted a couple of players, drafted Dalton Connect, drafted Brony.
0:52.0	There were serious weaknesses on the team,
0:59.9	and they stood pat. One of only, I believe, three teams that made no significant additions over the summer. August, September were rough, difficult months. Lakers fans were down
1:07.9	bad. Start of the season, there was hope that maybe JJ Reddick could shake some things up
1:13.6	enough, but everybody knew that the roster was just waiting for a trade, waiting for
1:17.2	something to change.
1:18.6	Not only do we get a trade, we got multiple trades.
1:22.6	We got DeAndrelle Russell for Dorian Finney Smith, which transformed the Lakers defense.
1:29.0	And then we got the trade.
1:30.9	We got the trade.
1:35.5	We got the trade that made the rest of the NBA so angry.
1:40.0	That made the rest of the NBA said, oh, my God, not again, Lakers.
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