It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

Quick programming note before we start, we're going to be shifting to Mondays for the rest of the season.

John usually has to write on Sunday nights.

They're usually a ton of games during the playoffs. Danny and I always do a dunk-on write on Sunday nights. They're usually a ton of games during the playoffs.

Danny and I always do a dunk-on on those Sunday nights during the playoffs,

recapping the weekend action.

So John and I figured it would be better to sit back, take stock for a day,

and then record during the day on Mondays,

since we're doing a little bit longer-term content content that made a little bit more sense for this show.

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Good Sunday.

All of you, if you're listening to this for the first time, getting back into the swing of things.

I'm Nate Duncan, joined by John Hollinger, one of the godfathers of NBA analytics, has spent

seven years with the Memphis Grizzlies now of The Athletic. And I have not nearly as many as

credentials as John does, but I at least was persuasive enough to get him to come on this podcast.

So you're going to have to listen to me to.

And what we're going to talk about today is looking at all of the teams that are in the bowl.

It's going to be a two-week series here.

We're actually going to look at some of the bigger contenders first this week as

some of their biggest questions,

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