NBA fans were good all year, and Santa delivered five amazing games full of close upsets,

turnarounds, and comebacks on Christmas Day.

Plus, Jimmy Butler draws a line in the sand with the Miami Heat ahead of the NBA trade deadline.

That's all ahead today on Locked-on NBA.

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And with me are two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts from the Lockdown Nuggets

podcast and senior writer for the Action Network. We've got Matt Moore and from the Lockdown Bulls

podcast, Hayes. I don't know if you two are nursing an NBA hangover from the amazing action that we got

on Christmas Day.

Was this the best slate of games that we've had in recent memory?

It's surprising to me that it was.

It was really great.

The biggest thing is that these games were all memorable

like we're going to remember these games because a lot of times it's like oh yeah like those two

too played on christmas didn't they but like from wemby to the lakers warriors nail biter like

all of these games were absolutely well except for the last one we're just thrilling and

our games that we're going to remember for various last one, we're just thrilling and our games that

we're going to remember for various reasons, Hayes. Yeah, it was a fun, it was a fun day games,

like everything from top to bottom, and maybe it was just because I had a little withdrawal

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