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On today's show, did the Knicks ace their off-season?

And should they be considered the favorites to win the Eastern Conference?

One of us, maybe both of us, think they should?

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All right, welcome to an offseason edition of Locked-on NBA Game Night, tipping off now. All right, welcome to an off-season edition of Locked on NBA Game Night. Wes Goldberg here with the host of Locked-on Knicks, the one-and-only Gavin Shawl. However, you might be tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app. Thanks for making Locked-on NBA your first listen every day. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time.

Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code Locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. Have a great show for you today. We're going to take a look at which current NBA players are a lock to make the Hall of Fame and which players are on the Hall of Fame bubble. But we'll do that in a second. First, I want to start with this athletic article that gave the Knicks, Gavin, a B-plus grade for their off-season.

To recap the moves that they made really quick, they signed Jordan Clarkson and Gershont Yabaselli.

They extended McCall Bridges with a four-year, $150 million contract over the weekend,

and they swapped out Tom Thibito for Mike Brown at head coach. So Gavin, since you're the expert and the host of Locked on Knicks, I thought we could do a Nick's deep dive today. Do you think a B-plus grade is fair for the Knicks off season? That is, we haven't done an episode yet. We've given them a grade. That's a good idea. Maybe that's what I'll talk about tonight. But I think that is a perfect grade for the New York Knicks.

I think moving on from Tom Thibito was probably my number one bullet point for this off season.

If you want to get deeper on that, we can. The biggest thing for me was just not playing the

Knicks best lineups and and adjusting

only when his hand was pushed beyond reason and not really adjusting preemptively. And also

teams sometimes just get tired of the same voice. There was real discontent in the locker room,

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