On today's show, Derek Livey's injury is brutal for the Dallas Mavericks. One, he'll be out for the rest of the season. And two, it puts them in a really tough position to make it a big decision before they even see him play another game building around Cooper Flagg. Talk about that and more today's Lockdown. This is Cooper Flagg and you're listening to Lockdown Mall. So all of them is all the time. I think that's a good question. All these changes. No, I still got my dog, Dwight Powell. You know, I'm not. Your daily Dallas Mavericks podcast. It's a part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. I'm going to give a city like that. And welcome. You are locked down to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My'm going to get a city like that.

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The one more thinking, what you got for me, Isaac Harris.

Is it weird that I just, the first thing I thought of when that lively news hit was the

classroom?

No, I mentioned it in the one more thing earlier today.

Mrs. Cohen's classroom, that's the first thing I thought about.

And that they're just big fans of lively and the lively fan club.

And he's, I don't know, we're at Nick's doing.

Oh, there we go. the lively hype squad that the this local school here if you're not familiar uh teachers a huge maps fan and the kids and

stuff so i hate it you know you hate injuries in general but whenever you cover a team and you get to see some of these guys up close and you see some of their personalities. Every once in a while, you have a few personalities come through that are just so infectious and so fun and everybody just loves being around. And that's one of those guys like Derek lively. And I hate that he's hurt. Today's episode, we're going to get into some lively talk we'll also talk about Jason kid is he going to be the Dallas Mavericks next GM and other rumors talk about some of the other things have been brought up Gafford clay maybe some other ones but let's start here Isaac Harris so the mavericks announced that derrick lively is out with an injury I did an episode reacting to that earlier. But one of the things that I didn't mention in that, I think that needs, that deserves being mentioned is one of the biggest things about this Derek lively injury is one, I don't think that the match should consider him as like a big part of their future anymore. You can't like, you can't like sharpie him into. All right, it's Cooper flag and it's Derek lively and that's your front court of the future. We're just,

this is, this is who we are. This is our identity. I don't think you can do that anymore.

However, the Dallas Mavericks have this extension and they could, they're, they're open to

extend Derek lively around August. This is not like August 6th is the date that they're open to extend Derek lively around August.

This is not like August 6th is the date that they're able to do this.

And they have to make that decision without him playing another game at all.

You had that quote from Matt Ricardy, the interim GM of the Mavericks,

who may not be the GM by the time they have to make that decision,

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