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I'm Doug Branson, host of the Lockdown Hornets podcast and your shot clock Sherpa, guiding you

through the NBA's biggest stories. And there are a lot of big stories from this weekend with the help

of Lockdown's local experts with me are two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts

from the Lockdown podcast,

from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, I should say, and senior writer for the Action Network,

Matt Moore, and from the Lockdown Bulls podcast, we've got Hayes. Matt and Hayes,

let's get right to it. The biggest story this weekend did not happen on the court, but in the

locker room. Sixers star Joe Ellen Bde was involved in a physical altercation with Philadelphia

Enquirer writer Marcus Hayes over a column Hayes wrote that criticized Embed for missing

the start of the season and made an awkward tie-in with Embedde's late brother and son.

Hayes has since removed those references from the article.

Inquirer writer Gina Mazzle reported that Embed's open

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