Thursday edition of locked on NBA lock and Goliver back with you the games get back underway tonight Cleveland's got a new coach there's all sorts of little stuff

But we're going to go with the 4-5 6 storylines that we're most interested to see in this final 29

game sprint of the NBA.

I'm David Lock.

He's Ben Goliver, Washington Post NBA writer, and Ben, the Bucks to 70 are your storyline you're most interested in.

What are you expecting this team to do down the stretch? They've proven

that they're the dominant regular season team in the NBA. Well look I

get a good sign like that we're coming out of a nice all-star break where it sounds like you

had some good time with your family.

I got a lot of fun in in Chicago and we were having a difficulty narrowing it down to just

five stories.

I mean that's a great sign for you know the next month or two to come. There's a lot going on.

To me I always start at the top when it comes to the biggest storylines and that's why I have to go with

Milwaukee. Look if we hadn't had Golden State a couple of years ago run off the 73, the Bucks would be getting way, way, way more buzz for their chase of 70, I think.

You know, part of it is that that season for Steph Curry and the Warriors was just so magical.

It's kind of a big market team.

They're this flashy, glitzy team that was just kind of on the rise.

They were media darlings and Milwaukee isn't quite that.

Of course they've got the rating MVP, a guy who's probably going to be the back-to-back MVP

with Janus, but they're not out here sort of courting attention or necessarily going out of their way to draw, you know, media coverage.

And yet they deserve all of it. I mean, this is a team that could absolutely win 70 games if they try. The main question is are they going to be

sprinting through the finish line or are they going to be resting guys down the stretch

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