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Thursday edition of locked on NBA

with Ben Goliver, Washington Post National Columnist.

I'm David Locke.

Thank you very much for tuning in

to our Thursday edition,

Locked on NBA.

And there's some fun ones to talk about tonight

and some big ones to look toward today.

I want to start off with Miami going into Philadelphia for the 108-104 win.

Lots of different aspects to this one.

One, I just love watching Miami play honestly Ben they just play harder than anyone else in the league they get every 50 50 ball they move it they make the extra pass they're offensively, and then they go old school and zone it up defensively.

No question, they're the guys of the type of team. I don't want to be fun to watch, but the type of team that maybe you're expecting early on hey they're not going to be able to keep this

momentum up you know this kind of feels too good to be true and yet the deeper that we go into

the season the more true it feels you know one thing that I took away just from the end of that game, I mean obviously

Philly has this big frantic rally, late, Kendrick Nunn, you know, in this kind of rookie of

year type conversation get himself through the

free throw line he misses both free throws but I thought it was a great teachable

moment for basketball fans for basketball coaches out there after missing the

two free throws

that could have iced the game,

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