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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	Today on the big three in 30, the Nuggets get a match up with the timber wolves.
0:05.2	The biggest thing to me, and I want to start off here, the Lakers face off with the rockets in the
0:09.4	first round. I want to know just why won't L.A. be a cakewalk in this year. And the Celtics meet up
0:15.8	with the 76ers in the playoffs again. It's Celtics, it's Sixers for the 23rd time in NBA history.
0:24.5	This is the Big 3 in 30 NBA, the three biggest stories in the NBA from our local experts at the Locked-on podcast network.
0:32.4	We bring you the real story, why it matters, what's next, who wins the big game and more, all in 30 minutes.
0:38.8	The Big 3 and 30 NBA starts now.
0:42.9	Thank you for making the Big 3 and 30 your first listen of the day, part of the locked on
0:47.4	podcast network, your team every day. Today's episode is brought to you by Fanduil.
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1:00.6	The Nuggets open up against the Timberwolves in one of the toughest first round series in the West.
1:05.9	Matt Moore from Locked On Nuggets breaks down the biggest keys in that matchup.
1:10.3	The biggest thing to me, and I want to start off here on YouTube.com slash Locked on Nuggets, you can see this graphic. If you are listening on the podcast, if you head to the YouTube page, you can watch it. Also, if you just hit me up and you want to see it, let me know and I can show you. This is the rotation chart via MBA rotations. info. I don't have Ryan's. I don't, he had put them all in a folder for the everydayers club, but to be honest, I was too lazy to go find it.
1:35.3	So I've used this one. And this is the box score from the Christmas Day game, the Nuggets won 142 to 138 and what it kind of outlines and shows and you'll notice
1:46.1	that there's no Aaron Gordon in this one which is very important it was Yokech Murray Watson
1:51.7	THJ and Spencer Jones no Cam Johnson in this one either um I circled two boxes I circled two squares
1:59.6	I put two squares rounded, because I prefer the rounded
2:02.2	ones, up and kind of wanted to highlight them. And the keys are the start of the second quarter minutes.
2:08.7	So to start the second quarter for the wolves, it was Jaden McDaniels, Rudy Gobert, Dante Devencenzzo, Bones Highland, and Nas Reed.
2:18.7	Okay.
2:19.1	So what you get here is no ants, but you get Jaden, you get Rudy, you get Nas, you get
2:27.4	bones, and you get shooting with Dante.
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