Thursday Edition of locked on NBA. I'm David Locke along with the Washington Post Ben

Goliver and Wednesday nights continue to be great great nights of basketball in the

NBA the headliner clippers Celtics I'm glad we're

recording this in the morning did you just get home yeah basically I mean between all the replay reviews and you know the long waits for

quiet literature after these games which has become pretty typical in

Los Angeles.

It was a quick turnaround, I'm not going to lie,

but a fantastic exciting game last night.

Obviously, the first look at Kawaii Leonard and Paul George together,

there was plenty to wrap your mind around.

Bodies were flying all over the court.

I think there was some, you know, passes sailing into the stands at some point

with the Clippers offense just not really being on track

early in that game, but they got led to out down the stretch.

Big picture on this one, I mean the Celtics miss something like their first 18 threes,

and they go to overtime with what's supposed to be the best team in the league.

Is there any way that a team that actually lost walks out more validated to the team that won?

I actually think both sides are pretty happy with this one.

If you're Boston Boston I think the story

of the year has been the improved chemistry between your point guard which is

now Campbell Walker rather than Kyrie Irving and the two young wings in

J. L. Brown and Jason Tatum. I thought that those guys are all playing with great verve, great pop. Down the stretch you get a big time three pointer from Jason Tatum and he kind of

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