How Far Can the Charlotte Hornets Go?

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Charlotte Hornets crushed the Boston Celtics with a dominant all-around performance—can LaMelo Ball and company become true Eastern Conference contenders? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore, and Haize break down the Hornets’ sizzling six-game win streak, defensive renaissance, and the debate over their playoff ceiling.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily. Hornets fans are dreaming big after last night's win over the Celtics. We'll talk about the ceiling to the league's hottest team. Meanwhile, add Mike Brown to the list of people who have a problem with the Thunder. Does the league need to step in? And finally, we do a deep dive on a pair of overlooked playoff teams. Locked on NBA Daily starts now.
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0:41.0	Hello and welcome back to Locked on NBA Daily, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network,
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0:46.8	However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your podcast app, thanks for making us your first listen every day.
0:48.3	I'm Wes Goldberg, and today we're talking about just how far the Hornets can go in the
0:52.1	Eastern Conference.
0:53.1	We've got a game of Make It Take it coming up in the next segment and then a deep-ish dive on the Raptors and Timberwolves. We're doing the help of Lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best with me, as always, from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's a senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. There's a wood frog that you can literally freeze solid and it survives.
1:12.5	Like you can freeze it solid.
1:14.2	Up to 70% of their body can freeze and that frog survives.
1:18.3	Truly the most clutch animal you're going to find.
1:20.8	From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, he's a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report.
1:24.1	It's Hayes.
1:24.9	I have no random animal facts because I am the animal here.
1:29.1	How about that?
1:30.0	The animal, the petty animal.
1:32.4	Let's start with a team that has everybody in the league buzzing.
1:37.0	The Hornets beat the Celtics last night in a blowout win in Boston.
1:41.3	On the second night of it back to back, the Hornets have now won six games in a row. They're one of the hottest teams in the league, if not the hottest team in the league, since December. We've talked about them here on the show as a sneaky playoff team, but last night's win has Hornets fans dreaming even bigger. Locked on Hornets, I thought, did a great job breaking down last night's win. I want to play for you a part of that episode right now.
2:02.4	The Hornets, they beat the Celtics 118 to 89. It's the Celtics largest loss of the season.
2:08.6	It marks Boston's second wire-to-wire loss of the season. It's the Celtics third 20-point
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