Are Buyouts Ruining the NBA? | Celtics Stumble, Westbrook's Crazy Night and Regretting the Harden Trade

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4.2 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wes Goldberg of the Mercury News and Locked On Warriors and David Ramil of Locked On Heat discuss if the buyout market is ruining the NBA. Then they look at why the Celtics continue to struggle, Blake Griffin's impact in Brooklyn and try to appreciate Russell Westbrook before asking if Rockets GM Rafael Stone was being honest when he said he would do the James Harden trade over. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Locker Room, the free audio-only social media platform for sports fans,
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0:20.9	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. podcast.
0:23.0	Your team every day.
0:25.0	Welcome to Lockdown NBA on a Tuesday everybody.
0:28.0	I'm West Goldberg for the Mercury News and host of Lockton Warriors here with the host of
0:32.4	Lockdown Heat David Rimmill, and on today's
0:34.7	show, the Nets take care of business against the Timberwolves. Russell Westbrook goes off for a
0:39.2	crazy triple double, and we get to some answers about Andre Drummond's role with the Lakers, but we begin
0:45.2	today with a question.
0:47.2	Our buyouts ruining the NBA.
0:50.0	In a column for Sports Illustrated, Howard Beck quotes a team executive as saying, quote quote this is creating a competitive
0:55.5	advantage for the large destination markets and it's another
0:59.0	inequity for the small markets David does this executive have a point?
1:04.0	Absolutely not. What Howard and the three executives that he interviews for the piece
1:10.1	failed to mention is that all these players that were joining the big market teams were bought out by small market teams because those small market teams are run badly.
1:19.0	It has nothing to do with being the small market so much as it has a lot to do with just being a pretty
1:23.6	crappy franchise that pays too much for bad players. Think of Blake Griffin
1:28.2	getting a huge contract with the Detroit Pistons now obviously he was
1:31.1	traded for he lived up to that contract early on and then he got
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