Locked on NBA, MBA, the biggest stories, the local experts, every Monday, we dig into the biggest stories in the NBA with the locked on podcast network hosts.

Today we'll stop in Boston to speak to John Corrales of locked on Celtics about the Kyrie Irving injury situation.

We'll head to Denver to speak with Adam Morris about the surging nuggets and their push for a

playoff spot and lastly we'll go to New Orleans to chat with Jake Madison of Lockdon Palikans about the Pelicans big win over

the Warriors and their playoff push.

It's all coming up the biggest stories with the local experts on Lockocked on NBA. You are locked on the NBA part of the locked on podcast network. Hi guys it's your Monday host again Josh Lloyd the host of the

lockdown fantasy basketball podcast five days a week and also the lead analyst

at basketball monster dotcom. We are perilously close to the

NBA playoffs. We're going to be checking in on a few teams who have got some

pretty interesting stories happening as we are as we work out these

final seedings and what's going to happen

throughout the throughout the rest of the playoffs so let's get stuck straight into it.

Now we bring in the one of the hosts of the Lockton Celtics podcast John Corrales John obviously through the week we had

some news about Kyrie Irving who won't be back at all either through the regular season or

the playoffs is going to be out for four to five months with this knee injury. I assume that

majority of Celtics people sort of had this idea in their head anyway that

they were going to be going through this playoff season without Kyrieving at all.

I think we were in a place where we didn't expect him for the first round and we're hoping that maybe on the early end he could come back some point in the first round but hopefully for the second and I think everybody feels pretty confident even without

Kyrie even as currently constituted that any non-Wizards first round

matchup is winnable for the Celtics but that second round is where we were hoping

for Kyrie and Marcus Smart to come back and have just a better chance at moving forward and getting our key guys back.

Well, the interesting that you've been up there about the Wizards, obviously, there are three teams who are in that position to be the seventh seed to take on the

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