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Thursday edition of lockdown,

NBA David Lock, along with the Washington Post

NBA writer Ben Goliver,

the League did not disappoint tonight, Ben Goliver.

Wow, if I get a Wednesday night without a game

and I get to sit around without prepping

because I don't have a game tomorrow,

I want nine games generally like this one this night. So it's an amazing

situation we've got developing in the NBA right now a lot of the headlines

people are arguing about should there be an all-star game what's up with the national anthem what's going on with

Kevin Durant and the protocols and meanwhile the game action has actually really really cranked up and so I don't want people to get

distracted from that I mean

incredible you know last possession games featuring the Lakers featuring the

bucks featuring the Hawks tonight I mean pretty much anywhere you want to look you got one right down to the wire a lot of fun tonight

I would like to congratulate the Chicago Bulls because an Eastern conference team actually be to Western

conference team tonight okay otherwise the nightly whitewash that is the west throttle in the east generally

continued tonight. I think it was five to one west to east. It's 60 like 4% right now. It's huge and we're in a higher percentage of

games are our non-conference games than ever before in a history of the league.

No I mean look at Cleveland they're going on a five-game road trip west. They had a shot against Phoenix in game one and I started to think,

Uh-oh, what's the rest of this trip look like because they didn't take care of business in that one?

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