On today's show, Anthony Davis is playing with the best pair of bigs he's ever played with. And it's a clear advantage for the Dallas Mavericks. I'll tell you why. Today's locked on maps. Stop it! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go to the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper Flagg will fly in Dallas. All of us all five. You are locked on maps. Your daily Dallas Mavericks podcast. It's part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. I'm going to give a city. Like that. And welcome. You're locked up to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. Media member covering the math for 10 years. Thanks for reading every day.

And making the Lockdown Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network out there.

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And we're one of the biggest shows. So I appreciate everybody for helping us do that. Those that have been with us since the beginning since 2017 when Isaac and I took over this show. We were not the number one of sports podcast network in the country, but we are now. And that is absolutely incredible. Today's episode, I'm going to talk about the bigs. I'm going to talk about Anthony Davis. I'm going to talk about Derek lively, Daniel Gaffer. We got big questions about all of them. I want to talk about what is going to be required of the Mab centers offensive-wise, because I think that's the big thing for them. Could Gafford start by the end of the year? Is it more likely to be bench, traded, start by the end of the year? Like, which is more likely? I also think that the Mab's double big lineup is going to be an advantage in a bigger way than we even realize. And I'll talk about that. But let's start here. Anthony Davis is an all-NBA player. We've been talking about him for weeks. We did the Lockdown Top 100 100 and he is a top 10 player he was a top 14 player in the locked on top 100 but a top 10 player to me slightly had him an 8 i think isaac had him in the top 10 as well because he is that good on both ends of the floor and that is the type of a player the mavericks have now the health is the question. I'm not really going to talk about the health today.

We've talked about it so much. I've mentioned it so many different times. You're probably sick of hearing it. I'm sick of talking about it and hearing it. Obviously, yes. If Anthony Davis is not healthy, then the season is going to be for not. It's going to be all about Cooper Flag and that's literally it. There's like no hoping to win at that point.

If you don't have Anthony Davis,

he is that impactful player. about Cooper Flag and that's literally it. There's like no hoping to win at that point if you don't have Anthony Davis.

He is that impactful player.

But what I do want to look at and focus on is the centers that Anthony Davis has played

in the past.

One of the big things that has been made about Anthony Davis's career is that he wants to be

a four.

He wants to be a power forward.

He wants to play with another big next to him.

And his teams in the past have tried.

They have tried to put centers next to him.

The most games he's played with in his career with the center is Alexia Jinta,

180 games.

That's like what, two seasons and some change, basically.

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