Coming up on Lockedon NBA Daily.

With a chance to beat the magic last night, the Lakers botched the final possession between

Luca and LeBron.

Is this a sign of trouble in Los Angeles?

And why one stat shows that LeBron may be the odd man out.

Meanwhile, the Cavs got a big win over the Knicks last night and are looking like the

favorites in the East.

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I'm West Goldberg, and today we're talking about troubles with the Lakers and the Cavs as potential favorites in the Eastern Conference. 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. Matt. I was almost 20 minutes late for the show today. And my esteemed co-host have been, have kindly and courteously and professionally waited for me when you

when you have kids there's going to be this temptation to start letting things slide you're going to be like well it's fine i have kids i can be a little bit late don't do it if you're somebody that's always on time i was always on time don't do it it will infest your life you'll just be late for things constantly don't let it happen to you save yourself what happens if you were always late before kids like in my

you just don't show up you're just to become the person

that just never shows. You're not there. Just canceling things. From the lockdown Bulls podcast, he's also embarrassing Bulls creator for Bleach Report. It's Hayes. You know, I did that at becoming a father at 19. I found out very quickly that I would tell people, I would tell my kids, either you're coming with me on time, or I'm leaving you. And I wouldn't leave them. Hopefully just at home. Oh, at home, not like in public. I mean, now they're, they're all teenagers. So I will leave them at the mall. Yeah, call yourself an Uber. You guys figure it out. Um, let's talk about the Lakers here. They lose to the magic last night. They blew a 12-point lead. Botch the final play with a chance with a go-ahead shot. And I don't know if you guys saw Brian Winhorst on first take this morning, but he was citing lineup data that basically said that the Lakers are a bad offensive team when they have all three of LeBron, Luca, and Austin Reeves on the court together.

It's something that they've also been talking about quite a bit over at Locked on Lakers.

Let's play that clip.

It's funny.

For all of the concerns about this team defensively and how on paper they do not profile to be a strong defensive team.

It is the offense for the last few weeks that has been in the absolute crapper.

And tonight was no exception.

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