GAME NIGHT: NBA's WORST Teams With The BRIGHTEST FUTURES | Wembanyam's Spurs & Sarr's Wizards LEAD The Way

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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NBA's Worst to First? Ranking Non-Playoff Teams' Futures. Which bottom-dwelling NBA squad has the brightest tomorrow? Hosts Jackson Gatlin (@Locked On Rockets) and David Ramil (@Locked On Heat) dissect the futures of teams that missed last season's playoffs. From the San Antonio Spurs' potential with Victor Wembanyama to the Washington Wizards' surprising upside, they analyze young cores, draft assets, and development trajectories. The duo debates the Phoenix Suns' long-term viability, ponders the New Orleans Pelicans' Zion Williamson dilemma, and struggles to pinpoint the bleakest outlook among the league's cellar-dwellers.

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0:00.0	On today's show, power ranking the futures of the worst teams in the NBA.
0:05.2	Does any team come anywhere close to Victor Wemnon Yama and the San Antonio Spurs?
0:09.9	It's all coming up right here at Locked-on NBA.
0:13.0	When that final buzzer rings, you know it's time for Locked-on NBA game night.
0:18.3	All the post-game reactions to every game across the league, every single night, with
0:23.5	insights only the hosts that locked on can provide.
0:26.7	It's the true NBA fans, one stop for all the actions.
0:31.1	Every game, every night.
0:33.3	It's Locked on NBA game night, tipping off now.
0:37.5	What is up and welcome to another edition of Locked-on NBA.
0:41.1	I'm your host, Jackson Gatlin.
0:42.7	Also host of Locked-on Rockets right here on the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every single day.
0:49.3	And joining me is my partner in crime, the host of Locked-on Heat, David Ramil.
0:53.9	David, how happy are you that the heat don't fall into this category of one of the worst teams in the NBA that we're about to power rank the futures of?
1:02.2	Well, pretty optimistic.
1:04.1	They tend to be one of the teams that just always kind of finds himself somewhere in the middle, never too high, never too low.
1:10.3	So we'll see how it all pans out. But, you know, there's some potential teams that are kind of sleepers among this group that we're talking about. And who knows, maybe they might be able to climb up our potential power rankings to the top tennis teams. Some might call that NBA purgatory. Here we like to call that where the Miami Heat just lives. So let's go ahead on today's
1:29.8	show. We've been doing this power ranking series throughout this offseason here on our
1:34.0	edition of Locked on NBA Game Night. And rather than try to power rank who's the best or the
1:41.0	most competitive of these, you know, kind of bottom feeder teams at the bottom of
1:45.7	the NBA landscape, we thought it'd be fun to take a look at these remaining teams that we
1:49.9	haven't done during our power ranking episodes and take a look at the brightest futures,
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