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Injuries to Monitor:

• ⁠GSW potentially does not have Steph (knee) either. • ⁠Lakers saw Lebron today at practice but he is dealing with a calf strain so he’s a game time decision in the near-term. • ⁠Lakers also have Anthony Davis (adductor) who is probable to play Tuesday against Memphis, Mike Trudell of Spectrum SportsNet reports. Another to keep an eye on but not rely on. • ⁠Grizzlies have Ja, Rose, Adams, Xavier Tillman, and Brandon Clarke out. • ⁠Mavs only have Maxi Kleber (toe) out. Relatively healthy squad. • ⁠Nuggets have Murray definitively out for a month. • ⁠Edit: Adding r/Sengun here since we don’t know how his ankle would respond to the two weekend games but four days off may be a blessing for him. 🤞

My Expected Scenarios: Hopefully we can get back one game from the Warriors, beat the Lakers again outright and split second one due to complacency or randomness, and beat the Grizzlies (struggling & win one for the Villain). I know the Clippers are struggling currently but that makes them more desperate than us with the accumulation of SoCal buddies team in Kawhi, PG, Russ, Harden, Norm Powell, etc. and we are on a high off the six game win streak so we may letup or slip up ON THE ROAD before refocusing due to loss (idk). Mavs are clicking on all cylinders so that’s a potential tossup between a grind out or us getting beat down by their offensive weapons (FTM). Nuggets is also a toss up on both as we saw. They might get the next one without Murray due to adjustment and us counter adjust to squeeze one out hopefully.

Record Prediction: Overall, I think we can get it to 4-4 or 5-3 in this rough stretch. Also, some away games so that’ll be different. Or we can get something like 3-5 and revert back to the mean as many outsiders seem to expect. 3-5 would mean we are 9-8 which is still over .500 and respectable for pursuit of play-in and factoring a tough beginning schedule.