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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Houston Rockets rally from 0–3 down, shocking the Los Angeles Lakers and sparking talk of NBA history. Can Jabari Smith Jr., Reed Sheppard, and Houston’s young core pull off the league’s first-ever reverse sweep? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize break down key moments, high

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily.
0:04.0	The Rockets have won two straight against the Lakers.
0:06.0	Are they on the brink of making history?
0:08.0	Meanwhile, the NBA has a new idea to fix tanking.
0:11.0	Is this the best one yet?
0:12.0	And finally, three teams have a chance to advance in the playoffs tonight.
0:16.0	We'll tell you which one has the best chance to get it done.
0:18.0	Locked-on NBA Daily starts now.
0:30.4	You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:35.2	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:55.2	Hello and welcome back to Locked on NBA Daily. I'm Wes Goldberg. That's Matt Moore. That's Hayes. We have a ton to get to today on a Thursday. The calves go up, three, two over the Raptors last night. The NBA has a new idea to fix tanking, and we're going to look ahead to three series that could end tonight.
0:58.9	But let's start with the Rockets win over the Lakers last night. It's their second straight win of the series to pull to 3-2 after they started the series down, 3-0. They actually
1:03.7	have outscored the Lakers in this series by five despite being down a game. And it's got people
1:08.4	wondering whether or not they could become the first team in NBA history to come back from a 3-0 deficit and win a playoff series. Here's more
1:16.4	from Locked-on Rockets. Right. Of the 159 playoff series that started 3-0 in NBA history,
1:25.0	97 of them, so 61% ended 4-0, which is already off the table, right?
1:30.1	Another 47 of them ended 4-1, so that's 29.6%.
1:34.3	11 of them finished 4-2, which was 6.9%.
1:38.8	Nice.
1:39.8	And then four of them went to a game seven and ended for three.
1:44.6	So the team that was still up three oh, ultimately won.
1:46.8	We've never seen a comeback from down 03.
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