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It's time to zoom out on the league and ask,

who's been the best player in the playoffs so far?

The answer might surprise you.

Meanwhile, has Joel Embed's arrival to Sixers Celtics change that series

and why the return of one of the Lakers stars

could spell the end of the rocket season tonight?

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Hello and welcome back to Locked on NBA Daily. I'm Wes Goldberg. That's Matt Moore. That's Hayes. We have a jam-pack show for you today. The 76ers stayed alive against the Celtics last night. And we have some big questions about the series going forward. Plus, we'll also take a look at how the Lakers and Magic could win their series at advance to the next round tonight. But first, to start today's show, I thought we could zoom out and talk about who is left in the playoffs, specifically the players that are healthy and have not yet been eliminated, because we have a ton of injuries that have happened. Some teams have already advanced. So now I think it's a good time to take stock of what we have left right now in the post season. So we're going to do a draft of the best players still in the playoffs right now. Before we start recording, we flip the coin. Hayes, you won the coin flip. So you get first pick. We're not going to go snake style. We're just going to go one, two, three. Let's go ahead and just do it. So, Hayes, you go first. I'm taking Wimby. I'm taking Wimby. I think that, like, Wimby is such a, you know, game change on the defensive side of the ball and his offense has already, he's shown an ability so far to kind of grow from some of the things that limited him during the season. So I'll take Wimby first. He's shooting 50% from two point range and, uh, sorry, he's shooting like better than that actually. Uh, he is shooting, sorry, I'm looking this up. Numbers of matter.

Uh, he is shooting 60% from two point range and 54% from three that's crazy and you want

to be like well that he's not going to keep doing that for the rest of the playoffs and with wemby you have

to be like is he though what if he did like what if he just did that every single game um you know

only 21 points per game but a and a point eight8 rebounds. Also playing just 28 minutes a game. We were all like, he's going to have to play more minutes at the playoffs. Is he? So, yeah, I got no problems with the- Turns out not against Portland, who they did eliminate last night. So Wemby is a good pick. To me, it was one of two guys two guys for the first pick matt where are you going to go with this one um i'll take shea just the un the unquestionable

like the efficiency the winning the scoring all of the things that shea does he's been awesome he's

just been the guy that he is and he continues to be that guy and they made quick work of the things that Shea does. He's been awesome. He's just been the guy that he is and he continues to be that guy.

And they made quick work of the Sons.

Did not screw around at all.

So look, you know, 34 points a game.

He's only shooting 31% from three.

The efficiency from three point range hasn't been there.

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