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The NBA season resumes tonight, and the Knicks and Pistons headline an exciting slate.

Do the Pistons have the Knicks number?

Meanwhile, are the Lakers in danger of falling out of the playoffs?

And are the suns, the sleeper that teams in the West should be worried about?

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I'm glad to be able to talk some basketball. That's all. Let's start right off the bat. NBA season

starts back up tonight. We've got basketball, 10 games slate, and the headliner is Pistons at Nix. Two teams near the top of the Eastern Conference standings. They faced each other in the playoffs last year, so there's history there. And right now on Fandual, they're both plus 70, oh, I'm sorry, plus 370 to win the Eastern Conference.

Cleveland has the best odds at plus 350 after the James Hardin trade.

Here's the interesting wrinkle about Pistons' Knicks, though.

The Pistons are 3-0 against the Knicks so far this season.

Here's more from a crossover episode previewing the game between Lockdown Nix and Lockdown Pistons.

It appears to me from these matchups is that New York really does not want to play as physical as the Pistons do, and they really don't want to get into that type of battle. And again, I don't think many teams want to get into that battle with the Pistons. It feels like it's just stylistically something the Knicks. That's not something the NICs really want to buy into. We'll see how this third matchup goes, but I don't really think that the Pistons should be heavily concerned right now with how the Nix are suited. I think it's a matchup problem as of right now. And maybe things change in the playoffs because Brunson's a way, he's proven to be a playoff demon. So far, it just feels like it's a different, it's a mismatch that, uh, that the Knicks don't really like to play this style. Matt, they say styles make fights. Is this a fight that the Knicks don't want any part of? I think in a playoff series, yeah, the problem is with Duren and Stewart out tonight, it takes away a big bump. Like a lot of this is that the Knicks are obviously dependent on the offensive rebounding the Mitchell Robinson provides.

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