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The Knicks are halfway to the NBA finals and might have a secret weapon to beat whoever comes out of the Western Conference.

Plus, we'll talk about Cleveland's broken offense, James Hardin's future, and rank the NBA's best young cores before Thunder Spurs game three.

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Hello and welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily. I'm Wes Goldberg. That's Matt Moore. That's case. We have a ton to get to today. Game three, Spurs Thunder is tonight, and we're going to rank the NBA's young course. We're also going to get to some predictions later on in the show. But let's start with last night's game. The Knicks breeze over the Cavaliers in Game 2 to take a 2-0 Eastern Conference Finals lead.

Josh Hart scored a playoff career high, 26 points.

Shailen Brunson had 19 points and 14 assists, and the Knicks moved halfway to its first

NBA finals appearance since 1999.

They've now won nine straight playoff games.

I want to talk, though, about Josh Hart, who was benched late in game one, comes back with

a playoff career high, like I said, of 26 points, five three-pointers made in that game,

seven assists, a couple of seals.

Over at Lockdown Knicks, they called him the Knicks' secret weapon.

I can do a compilation of my takes for the last two years saying, if Josh Hart makes

threes, the New York Knicks can't be beaten.

And I truly believe that because now you're talking about a team that is, you know, I always

say, obviously five shooters, five out, I think is the most potent look that you can have

in the game of basketball, as long as you aren't, you out, I think is the most potent look that you can have in the game

of basketball, as long as you're introducing multiple new weaknesses. Now you're in a situation

where you have all the strengths that their current roster has with Josh Hart on the court and

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