How Deni Avdija's Buzzing EuroBasket Performance & Paolo Banchero or Franz Wagner As Magic's Best Player

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Deni Avdija STUNS IN EUROBASKET: Is he the Trail Blazers' best player? Avdija's impressive Eurobasket performance has NBA fans buzzing. Wes Goldberg and Tony East break down the Israeli star's 22-point game and 23-point showing versus France, exploring his potential impact on the Portland Trail Blazers. The duo compares the Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks, debating whether Paolo Banchero or Franz Wagner is Orlando's top player. They also discuss Giannis Antetokounmpo sitting out Greece's game and analyze Carmelo Anthony's career impact, sparked by Jim Boeheim's recent comments.

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0:00.0	It is locked on NBA game night for the night of Tuesday, September 2nd.
0:03.3	On today's show is Denny Avdia making us rethink the Trailblazers chances this upcoming season.
0:08.2	Plus, one of Carmelo Anthony's old coaches has a surprising take on Weathermellow is a winning player.
0:14.8	When that final buzzer rings, you know it's time for a locked on NBA game night.
0:20.0	All the postgame reactions to every game across the league, every single night.
0:24.9	With insights only the hosts that locked on can provide.
0:28.4	It's the true NBA fans, one stop for all the actions.
0:32.8	Every game, every night.
0:35.0	It's locked on NBA game night, Tipping off now. All right, welcome to an offseason
0:42.5	edition of Locked on NBA Game Night. However, you might be tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite
0:45.9	podcast app. Thanks for making Locked on NBA your first listen every day. I'm Wes Goldberg here
0:50.4	with Tony East. Tony, who's your Dark Horse MVP candidate for this coming season?
0:55.7	Well, if they don't get hurt, unfortunately, for the rest of Dark Horse,
0:58.8	this, Shane Yokit, you're going to be trading close for the MVP title this year. But if the
1:04.4	Bucks can really sneak in there, man, with the Eastern Conference not being that good, I think
1:10.5	Yannis is going to get some attention, but the Bucks have to be good. If he is really good and they win 45 games, he has no chance. 50? 50 games? Yes, as long as they're in the conversation for a top seat or if they're hosting a series, he'll certainly get into the mix. And he's proven he can still play at that level. His just team success success hasn't been there i have one more thing on the dark horse MVP odds that we'll get to
1:31.3	here in a second but overall great show for you today we're going to decide whether the magic or the
1:35.7	hawks are the better position team to make a run in the east and discuss a big injury that could
1:39.8	impact euro basket but let's start by talking about one denny Avdia. That's right. We're at the
1:46.5	part of the NBA calendar where we are leading the Locked Out NBA show with Deni Avdia.
1:51.2	But to his credit, this dude is hooping right now for Israel and Eurobasket. He had 22 points
1:56.9	on 53% shooting and four assists in their win over Belgium on Tuesday as Israel clinched
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