00:00Tonight, Joe, the Battle of Los Angeles.
00:02The Lakers come into this game as an underdog of plus one.
00:05You see the lines overnight around plus two, excuse me, minus two and a half to minus two
00:09for the Clippers, depending where you're shopping at.
00:11But now we see it settling in around a minus one favorite for the Clippers at home.
00:15Kawhi Leonard, of course, probably not going to be there tonight.
00:17James Harden, we'll see if he makes it.
00:19Questions on the Lakers.
00:20Roughly a toss-up, Joe.
00:21What's your spread line for this game tonight in the Battle of L.A.?
00:25Well, they've been, listen, the Clippers have been red hot.
00:28And it all started, Donnie, they were 6-21 on the season on December 20th.
00:34That is when they shut down the Lakers, 103-88, and then began winning 13 of their next 16 games.
00:43They're coming back.
00:44It's the first game home off a long road trip here.
00:47They just lost and kind of got beat up by Chicago.
00:49But like you said, no Kawhi Leonard.
00:52However, Kawhi Leonard is back to being questionable tonight.
00:55He has been in L.A. for the last couple of games here.
00:59He left the team to work on that knee.
01:02We'll see if he's available.
01:03But the Lakers have no interest in losing to the Clippers here.
01:07They had a nice effort in that last game.
01:10Big effort in Denver to get it done.
01:12Now they've got to take on the hot Clippers.
01:14Keep an eye on the injury report.
01:17Is Kawhi available?
01:18Is he not?
01:19Because if he becomes available, this line is going to change.
01:23And right now, Lakers, Flippers opened up two overnight as a favorite.
01:27We're seeing closer to a pick-em right now.
01:30That will change if Kawhi is healthy.
