Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Lockton NBA crew.

This week some of the guys are going to take some time with their family.

They're going to refresh, be ready to roll here shortly,

so we won't be going every single day of the week.

But I have a special guest. ESPNs Kevin Pelton and I sat down in

Portland over the weekend and here's our conversation for locked on

NBA.

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It is your happy holiday's Merry Christmas edition of locked on NBA David Lock with Kevin Pelton

E-SPNs numbers genius trade breakdown extraordinary

Congratulations by the way for the dual Brooks release of trade of what the difference between Marsh on Brooks versus

Dylan Brooks really is that was really it was really fabulously well done.

Thanks that was a fun night last Friday in the motor center following all of that.

So I give you credit I laughed very hard. I think I know your humor well enough to know that you thought was really funny and I was with you 100%.

I feel like I was in on that pretty early like that was a possibility. I sent a text to a mutual friend of ours actually suggesting that that might have been the case and then it slowly trickled out.

Wow, how did you know this?

Well, just the reporting, the fact that Memphis was so insistent that it was

Marshaed and everybody else was so insistent it was Dylan like it's some

it quickly jumped to oh crap they actually got the players rock.

All right let's talk about this season there's a lot of different elements that are going on

the feels to me that this the feeling I have on this season that jumps out my primary one is that the

teams are packed closer together and so my feeling a little bit is that the schedule

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