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solo, I guess duo this week with me and Hayes. I'm Matt Moore. I write for the Hartwood Proxism Substack. I'm on

the Action Network. I host Locked on Nuggets. He hosts Locked on Bulls as well as covers

all things Chicago Sports across like 1,700 different podcasts, like the number of,

how do you not get sick of talking Chicago sports, man? I don't know.

It's just ingrained in who I am as a person, I think, at this point. Yeah, well, we've all got our flaws. Today show is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code locked on NBA at Monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. No, Doug Branson this week. he's on assignment building a shrine to Joe Missoula. On today's show, we'll talk about what bugs us most. We'll get into the best division in the league, but we're going to start today with this haze. So Luca Dodget shines his extension. If you want to hear the reaction to that and what it means in the short term about the Lakers winning, that kind of battle, all those types of things you can listen to locked

on game night on this feed they covered it in detail over the weekend twice but hayes i want to

kind of like pull this a little bit further want to take a different angle on the lucca donch's

conversation and ask this okay obviously the the trade for lucid donch it's rearranged everything

rearranged their present their future

the whole chabang locking him in was the second thing and they worked very hard on

pitching him on the future of him as a Laker with like all of the things that comes with that

all the financial opportunities what it means to be a Laker star, did the job, got the money locked in,

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