Is OKC Scaring the Lakers & Other into Not Making Trades? | Is Cade Cunningham Top 10?

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This episode of Locked On NBA Daily features Nick Angstadt, Matt Moore, and Haize as they break down how the Oklahoma City Thunder's dominance is shifting NBA trade market strategies and teams' willingness to make big moves. The hosts debate whether Cade Cunningham is already a top-10 NBA player after his hot start with the Detroit Pistons and discuss his All-NBA potential compared to established stars like Tyrese Maxey, Anthony Davis, and Jalen Brunson.

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0:00.0	On today's show, the OKC scleries are getting to everybody.
0:03.4	Is it going to affect the way the trade market works?
0:05.9	And is Kate Cunningham a top 10 player already?
0:08.3	Today's Locked on a Daily now.
0:15.2	You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:19.9	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your daily NBA podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:28.3	Welcome to Lockdown NBA.
0:29.9	My name is Nick Engstead, host of the Lockdown Mavericks podcast, part of Lockdown
0:32.4	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.2	Sitting in for West Goldberg today, I'll be your shot clock Sherpa.
0:36.8	Thanks for being in every day or making a lockdown podcast network.
0:38.7	The number one sports podcast network out there. Today's episode brought to you by Fanduel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit Fanduel.com. Place your NFL live bets all season long. Joining me today, as always from Lockdown Nuggets and the Action Network. Matt Moore, how scared are you about Casey?
0:54.9	I go to, I wake up in a cold sweat every night.
0:57.8	Terrified. Lockdown Nuggets and the Action Network. Matt Moore, how scared are you about KC?
1:01.0	I go to, I wake up in a cold sweat every night, terrified that they're going to come in my house and defend me.
1:07.0	Yeah, I mean, they're, I was actually, I went through a bunch of their clips this morning. I'm watching like all of their defensive possessions.
1:10.0	And it's just crazy,
1:11.4	man. It's it is crazy. Where it's like, oh, they're playing zone. Let's flash a big middle.
1:18.0	That's turnover. Oh, they're flashing zone. We'll just go ahead and shoot it through. That's blocked.
1:23.2	It's like watching a highlight tape of all the times Michael Myers was chasing somebody.
1:26.9	Absolutely terrifying. And from Lockdown Bulls and Bulls Central, Hayes, how upset are you that Cade Cunningham is this good? And he plays for the Pistons. Actually, I'm not that upset about it. Because I've become such a friend of Koo, they deserve something down there. So I'm not going to hate. When the Bulls get back up, maybe I'll hate it, but I actually love Kagan.
1:46.3	The Bulls being bad has made you soft taste.
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