Special Edition locked on NBA.

You will have the local experts

on the biggest stories edition of locked on

M. Monday and we will obviously check

in with Oklahoma City, Toronto, and the Los Angeles

teams about what has taken place

with the Kauai Leonard Paul George combination,

but a special edition with our Washington Post expert Ben

Goliver for you right now.

And Ben, after you've gotten your bearings from the earthquake in Las

Las Vegas then the NBA Earth shook. How stunned were you? What was your

takeaway?

If you had told me that Zion Williamson would get injured in his summer league debut and it would be the third biggest story of the five hour news cycle I

would have told you you were absolutely nuts but that's where we are. I think that

what we're seeing is a basically a power grab in the vacuum created by the

Golden State Warrior sort of disintegrating because of injuries in the finals.

Obviously we knew the LA Lakers went all in with Anthony Davis and that trade and their desperate pursuit of

Kowai Leonard, but now you're seeing the LA Clippers doing exactly the same thing.

They don't want to be the little brother.

They want to be in the arms race and they proved it.

Not only were they able to lay in Kauai Leonard in free agency, but they traded in the absolute mountain of draft

picks, including a whole bunch of unproductive first-round picks for the rights to Paul George

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