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showing his age or is this just his new role with the Lakers? Meanwhile, the magic are moving

up the standings in the Eastern Conference. Have they turned their season around and the

Nuggets face yet another injury to a starter? It's Locked on NBA Daily. Let's jump in.

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Today we're talking about whether the magic or any good and more injuries to the Denver Nuggets. We're doing it. With the help of lockdown's local experts, I have two of the best with me, as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt. Matt? You know, popular trope and sci-fi and fantasy fiction is that this idea of there being some sort of special lineage that passes down through you and you have special abilities. The Nemhard family just cook. Like that's like their special abilities. Ryan Nemhard just comes in that game last night. Roast the Nuggets horrific defense. But he's genuinely good, man. Like Ryan Nymard's good. Andrew Nymard's good andrew nemhard's good be a nemhard

be in your work from the locked on pacer's podcast he knows a thing or two about the nemhard family

it's tony east yeah it's crazy watching ryan and seeing how many of their little mannerisms are

exactly the same in the way that they play basketball it's a delight and yes And yes, I love to see Ryan M. Hempard breakout. He looks great. Let's start today by talking about the Lakers, who were going for their eighth straight win last night, and instead, they get blown out by the Phoenix Suns. Dylan Brooks was trash-talking LeBron James, LeBron James, barely extended his double-digitit scoring streak and a weird box score for LeBron in this one.

10 points on 3 for 10 shooting in the five games since he's returned to the Lakers lineup and he's missed a couple here due to maintenance.

He's averaging 15 points per game on 46% shooting, 7.2 assists and 4 rebounds.

Matt, is this age catching up with LeBron or is this

just him getting used to a different role? I mean, it's age. Like, it's, it's age. Like,

you know, no one, a lot of times undefeated. And I think, look, if part of this is also there's

what you can do and there's what you can do consistently.

Like if they were like, we need you to score 20 points.

LeBron be like, okay.

Like you can reach that.

You can level up and reach that, I think, as you get older.

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