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The Lowe Post

Eastern Conference Trade Market with Bontemps and Marks

The Lowe Post

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4.77.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Zach talks to ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Bobby Marks about the trade landscape in the Eastern Conference as we approach next week's deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now the Loeb has-

0:03.8

Welcome to the Loeb Post Podcast one week from the NBA Trade Deadline and we are going

0:10.2

to talk about the Eastern Conference which is in complete chaos.

0:14.6

The Brooklyn Nets presumptive title favorites to begin the season lost their sixth straight

0:20.3

game in Sacramento to a King's team that has been absolutely abysmal over the last month

0:25.6

and really over the last decade and a half. The bucks up and down there in fourth, the

0:31.4

bulls despite taking injury after injury after injury, it all- it looked like they were

0:36.2

going to slip in the standing, slip in the standing for a hot second they did, they

0:39.8

wake up today. They're still first, they heat and they've had their whole team together

0:43.7

for basically never. They're still second, the Nets are only two games up on the play

0:49.1

in tournament. Charlotte Hornets hot and pursued at number seven, the Raptors and the Celtics

0:54.4

are surging at eight and nine are the Nets actually not going to make the top six. This is

0:59.0

crazy. We're going to talk about what all of these teams should do at the Trade Deadline,

1:03.8

how they are navigating this confusion in the East should they be more cautious. So some

1:09.1

of these teams like Cleveland, Chicago, say wait a second, we got a window, we should

1:12.1

go for it harder than we thought we were going to go for it. Or should they take the opposite

1:16.2

tactic of hey, maybe we're good enough as it is because our conference is a total mess.

1:20.5

Why would we squander a Pat Williams or multiple future first?

1:24.0

If we might be good enough now, these are the tough questions to help us answer them.

1:28.3

Two of our all star reporters, we have our Eastern Conference guru, Mr. Tim Bontem from

1:33.7

a hotel room somewhere in the Eastern Conference. Somewhere.

1:37.1

Somewhere.

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