Lockton NBA. The Bigger Stories, the Local Experts, every Monday we dig into the biggest stories in the NBA with the Lockton Podcast Network hosts.

Today we will stop in Miami to speak with Wes Goldberg of Lockton Heat about Miami's push for that Eastern Conference

playoff spot will go to Detroit to speak with Matt Shock of locked on Pistons

as Detroit looks to hold on not only to a playoff spot but to that six seat

and lastly we'll go to Orlando to speak with Philip Ross on playoff hopes of another Eastern Conference team. It's all coming up the biggest stories

with the local experts on locked on the NBA, part of the locked on the NBA, part of the

locked on podcast network. And the Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of lockdown MBA I am your

Monday locked on MBA host Josh Lloyd I'm also the host of the locked on fantasy

basketball podcast and the lead analyst at basketball monster.com we're going to be

talking Eastern Conference playoff race in today's show so touching on a few of

those teams that are looking for the final

three spots in the Eastern Conference playoffs so let's get to it. I'm joined now by

one of the hosts of the Lockton Heat podcast Wes Goldberg is here to talk about a Miami team that is

pushing for these playoffs currently situated in the eight seed half a game

ahead of the Orlando Magic, half a game behind, the Brooklyn Nets, it's going to be a intense final few games of the season here.

It is, and it doesn't help with Miami's schedule. They're going into a home and home against the

and Celtics right now it's going to be pretty challenging you know then then they're

off to Toronto game against Philadelphia this is not they they have one of the more challenging schedules out of all the

teams that are kind of in this in this race for the sixth seventh and a seat in the

east right now the nets have got a almost equally challenging schedule but then you got the magic and the pistons in there as well who do have things a little bit easier than the heat

Miami has won their last two games games they needed to take care of against the Mavericks and against the Knicks of course but they are

dealing with a couple of injuries at the moment where is I don't know how long it's been since we've seen

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