Huge scoring performances from the NBA starriest of stars, incredible finishes with all kinds of

postseason implications. It was an incredible night in the NBA, and we are going to talk about it all,

and we're going to talk about what it all means today on Locked-on NBA.

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I'm Doug Ransson, host of Lockdown Hornets, and your Shot Clock Sherpa guiding you through

the NBA's biggest stories every day with the help of Lockdown's local experts. And there were a lot of big

stories last night. Luckily, I have two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts here to

tell me what it all means from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast and a senior NBA writer for the

Action Network. He's our man of a thousand podcast. It's Matt Moore. Matt, on your substack,

hardwood paroxysm, you're working on the definitive MVP case for Shea Gilgis Alexander.

In it, you write about dead-arm push-offs. So I want to know, who is the best push-off

artist in the NBA right now? Is it Shea? Is it someone else? Who is the most valuable

pusher? I really think it's Shay. His ability to go watch the clips on the substack. He is able,

he does this incredible move. He's got so much body control in his upper arm to create separation

while his lower his forearm is completely limp.

So he never gets tagged with the pushoff.

It is absolutely phenomenal.

Chris Paul is really good at it.

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