It is a Monday edition of Lockton

in for Josh Lloyd.

The biggest stories, the local experts.

What's the biggest story in the NBA

going to be for the final 25 plus games?

The race in the Eastern Conference.

So we'll stop in Toronto, Boston, and Milwaukee

from Lockdown Celtics, Lockdown Box, and Lockdown Raptors.

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Looking at the Eastern Conference Arms Race, the interesting one is Boston,

you do not make a move, but had some signs of things looking better

toward right before the break, and maybe a team actually needed the break as well.

John Corralis of Lockton Celtics joins us now as well as of Mass Live.com and

John there was some Gordon Hayward sightings there late before the all-star break is

there a feeling he's turned a corner? I definitely think there's there's some

semblance of that it's so hard to say with the way his recovery's been going.

Every time you think he might have turned a corner, it seems like he takes a step back.

But I think this time around, it's definitely more for real. The one thing that I keep harping on is that second surgery that he had that that cost him his entire summer, which means it cost him four months of consequence-free basketball, five on five up and down,

where he could shoot to his heart's content and not worry about anything.

He spent the past four now four and a half months trying to do the

same thing while playing an NBA games for a team that was a one of the

leading contenders and I think it took a toll on him mentally. So I think he's finally starting to feel like himself again a little bit that that athleticism is coming back. He's starting to drive with the purpose of scoring which is helping him

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