The AD Luca trade somehow found a way to look even worse.

The Lakers actually cancel a trade and are the Knicks or Rockets ready for a real playoff run?

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experts. And with me are two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts from the Lockdown Nuggets

podcast and senior NBA writer for the Action Network. We have national NBA experts from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast and senior NBA writer

for the Action Network. We have Matt Moore. And from the Lockdown Bulls podcast, we have Hayes.

Matt and Hayes football, time to get out of the way. This is the NBA's time now. Are you ready?

Yeah, let's do it. Let's go. I always like this time, the time after the Super Bowl where you kind of switch.

You know, we've only got a month until March Madness and then all the drafts double kick up.

And then like the end of the playoff race and all the seating standings and everybody jockeying for position.

And then we're into the magical month of April and playoffs.

I can't wait. And Hayes, the Bulls and the Hornets, they'll be jockeying for position of another kind, right?

They'll be jockeying for...

Lottery position, yay.

All right. Let's talk about this AD Luca trade. I mentioned it in the cold open. It's not

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