I wish Davis can play, to see a preview of the finals, to see how KD Irving, and harden match-up with AD and Lebron on the other end, although they will not show 100% during the game, but to see them compete, will see how will it end can the lakers dominate the nets underneath, or the nets put a big scoring night to smash lakers, hope they are healthy if ever they would face each other in the finals.

I'm also excited to see this match. There's even an article I've read that's starting a war on Twitter, for the fans. I've heard on the news and from the people I've known that KD isn't going to play.

Can't still say that the Lakers would have this game but they have the advantage.

Honestly it will probably be Nets winning this one because they are a newer team trying to get to a higher seed after how they started early in the season, and trying to see how they play together and what they should do etc etc, there could be both irving and KD missing this game so it wouldn't really matter if they play hard or not in that case.

On the other side we know Lakers, AD is missing so that is a big problem for the team, he could be the best player on that team (very hard to say when you have Lebron in the team) but we all know Lebron will not play that hard neither, he cherry picks games most of the time and doesn't give 100% in the regular season, it is not easy being 36 years old and still manage to carry teams to finals, so he will definitely work as hard as he can during playoffs and just LeCoast during regular season. Basically this will be a boring game for sure, we are not going to see anything remote to what could be potentially.

He does have hamstring injury which is most likely for him not able to join up the game which is indeed an advantage for Lakers.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2931622-kevin-durant-ruled-out-for-nets-vs-lakers-due-to-hamstring-injury

Yeah kyrie playing or not aging is the key factor here.  That is huge for the Nets.  Think the play here is the over or under and not worry who will end up winning this one.  Easy to root against or for both teams to score

I'm just having the thought that what if Lakers appreciates him and want to take him back. That happens in the NBA when they see their man grown enough and became better with other teams. But I agree to you that he's better in Jazz as he became better with them.
Jazz has found a good player that they probably won't release unless there will be better offers not for him but for the team.

Lakers vs Nets who's excited to watch this game?

Davis is probably out and Durant could be out as well.
Why Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis are sitting out Nets vs. Lakers game

For me, this is a fair game for both as they'll miss one star for each team, but Nets still have 2 so I guess it's Irving/Harden vs James.

I'm afraid we will see the old scenario that the Nets have been dominated in rebounding, I hope it will not happen in this game as I have already put my bet on the Nets to win in this game. Nets IMO have already adjusted as they keep winning lately and that's the reason why I back them to win.

Hi guys. Lakers vs. Nets -- exciting game ahead. I see a lot betting on a Nets win tonight since they've been in a 4 game win steak.

Durant's absence had been a blessing in disguise so far and resulted into more Kyrie scoring opportunities. I reckon this comes down to who plays more defense in the 2nd half.

Overall, Lakers are better defensive team but I expect a huge game from Kyrie. Teams definitely going to crush the Over on this game.

I don't know what lead to the Miluakee slump but they are looking terrible. No motivation to win and lacking any offensive play making capabilities. If they lose today(which seems very likely), it will be 5 games in a row for them.
I think West has a better lineup but I'm not going to bet on it. These games are just played for fun and until the 4th quarter, nobody takes it seriously. Hard to bet on such things and literally anyone in the lineup can decide the game if they catch fire.