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podcast network, your team every day. Tuesday edition of Lockton NBA.

I'm West Goldberg Warriors Beat Rider for the Bay Area News Group

and host of Lockton Warriors here with David Ramele,

the host of Lockton Heat,

C.J. McCollum will miss at least a week.

The Raptors are rolling and the Wizards are on the shelf.

But we begin today in Brooklyn where the Nets beat the Bucks 125 to 123 Monday.

34 points for James Harden, 30 for Kevin Durant who hit the game winning 3 pointer.

The nets are now 2 and oh, David since trading for Harden. That's without Kyrie Irving.

It's one thing to beat the magic, but the bucks are a good team and the nets have barely had time to practice

Should the nets with Harden now be considered the favorites in the east? I think so I think

Obviously they've amassed a great deal of top-end talent there and they still have some questions at least to me regarding their bench but I've been saying pretty consistently I think for the last couple of months that even with without

Harden I thought they were still on the top tier in the Eastern Conference and then

certainly with him they look I'm not so I'm not well go so far as to say that they're impossible to be but I think that they look pretty

dominant their offense in certain particular so I would give them that edge over Milwaukee because I just think that

Milwaukee is a team that can still be figured out and has been over the last couple of post- seasons.

While they've dominated during the regular season, it's always been during the post-season where they show their weaknesses,

and that's still going to be the case

and I'm not prepared to say that it isn't then I'd give the edge to a team like

Brooklyn that has a player like Kevin Durant that has you know shown that he can win at the highest level.

That's a really good point that Milwaukee has been showed that they can be solved.

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