Can Cooper Flagg Keep the Mavs in the Mix? & Orlando Magic Go All-In

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Dallas Mavericks are banking on rookie phenom Cooper Flagg to keep them in the playoff race until Kyrie Irving returns, but is the pressure too much? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize break down the Mavericks. Meanwhile, the Orlando Magic doubled down on their future by acquiring Desmond Bane and betting big on Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner—have they finally built a contender in the East? Plus, we get our first look at the new-look Zion Williamson, who showed off speed, explosiveness, and fluidity in his preseason debut.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome to Lockdown NBA Daily on today's show.
0:04.2	Cooper Flagheads was work cut out for him to help keep the Mavs in the playoff picture until
0:08.3	Kyrie Irving returns. Can he do it? Meanwhile, the magic hope they've done enough to construct
0:12.7	a championship caliber roster. Plus, we get our first look at new look, Zion Williamson.
0:23.4	You are Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
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0:34.6	Welcome back to Locked-on NBA.
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0:52.4	Head to Fandualdwell.com to get started. I'm Wes Gold Goldberg and today we're talking about whether the magic have done enough to truly be contenders in the Eastern Conference. And we're talking about our first look at this reshaped Pelicans roster. We're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. And I have two of the best with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's also the senior NBA writer for the action network matt more matt got to watch a little pelicans preseason this morning
1:16.5	versus melbourne united very much enjoyed dash daniels down there actually and uh also very much
1:23.3	enjoyed the australian announcer so good job by them i enjoyed those guys this morning
1:26.4	hayes bulls bears creator for bleach report hosted on Bulls. Were you also in on the
1:31.6	Australian accent? Absolutely. Absolutely love Australian actions. Actually, and I've been
1:36.3	inundated with them since the Bulls got Josh Giddy. So there you go. You're a pro. You're a pro.
1:43.3	We're continuing our season preview series.
1:45.9	We're going team by team today.
1:47.0	We're talking about the Dallas Mavericks, who have rebuilt their roster on the fly
1:50.4	since trading Luca Donchich.
1:52.1	And a big part of that was getting lucky in the lottery and getting the chance to draft
1:56.0	Cooper Flagg number one overall.
1:57.3	Now, they're going to be looking to Cooper Flag to become the franchise player sooner rather than later so that they can compete while they still have Anthony Davis
2:04.3	and Kyrie Irving. Here's Isaac Harris from Locked-on Mavs with more.
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