Conference title contender loses another starter to foot surgery, which team is most likely to set a franchise record for regular season wins, and is there a path for Shet Holmgren to get his first all-star appearance? That's all today on Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

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host of Lockedon Hornets, and your shot clock Sherpa guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories every day 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 is a senior NBA writer for the Action Network. Matt Moore, Matt? I keep finding new ways that Cam Thomas is actually pretty good.

Like, I was looking at numbers this morning and going over some film and just like, he's a really good passer. Cam Thomas is just really good. The Nets should not be screwing with him. They just should not be screwing around with Cam Thomas. I'm at the point of being like somebody should go get him because Cam Thomas is that good. He's so much better than Anthony Simons.

Cam Thomas, better than Anthony Simons.

That's my take for the day.

I like the image of Matt Moore walking around his house, looking out of the couch cushions, around the chair, and just finding Cam Thomas nuggets all through his house. All throughout the house. Spewing them at his family members as they go, we don't care. We don't. We just simply don't care. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, he's also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes, Hayes. I'm glad that, like, Matt's finding stuff in, like, Anthony Simons. I spent the early part of the day doing a deep dive on why the Thunder may not keep Isaiah Hardinstein at the end of his contract and why the Bulls should be waiting. So there you go on that one. Oh, I like that. Was that for Bleacher Report? Where can we find that? Yeah, I haven't released it yet. It is, it is going to be for Bleach Report. It should be out on Friday. Okay. Stay tuned for that. We shift gears to the Cleveland Cavaliers. This is from ESPN. Cleveland Cavaliers Guard,

Max Struz, underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his left foot and will miss around

three to four months. The team announced on Tuesday, Struis suffered the injury, a break of the bone

that connects the pinky toe to the base of the foot. Ouch. During recent offseason workouts,

the cab said he's expected to return to basketball activities in three to four months.

The question is, should Cavs fans be freaking out right now?

Let's hear from Danny Cunningham of Locked-on Caves.

I saw on the internet on Tuesday, a lot of people freaking out.

Listen, this is an injury.

It sucks that it happens.

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