Luca draws first blood triple double style.

Can the Houston Rockets bully their way through the playoffs against softer teams?

And as the NFL looks to ban the tush push, I'll ask Matt and Hayes if they would ban something currently allowed in the NBA.

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I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown Hornets, and your Shot Clock Sherpa guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories with the help of Lockdown's local experts. And with me are two of Lockedons'

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the Action Network. He's the man of a thousand podcast. It's Matt Moore. Shouldn't

Luca just like lean into it and just like start branding a whole line of hookas? It could be

Lucas Hookas.

Well, he's buying parking lots. So as long as he's making investments, why not just do one more?

All right. And from the Locked-on Bulls podcast, the Prince of Petty. It's Hayes.

Speak of Petty, PJ Washington made zero shots, had zero stats other than three turnovers. Technically, all three of us had as good of a game as PJ Washington made zero shots, had zero stats, other than three turnovers.

Technically, all three of us had as good of a game as PJ Washington did last night.

I will say as someone that covered him as a locked on Hornets host that is not unfamiliar.

In the regular season, in the playoffs, he obviously was looking a lot better for Dallas.

But yeah, he didn't show up for this game.

But we are not going to talk about PJ Washington.

We are going to talk about the man of the hour,

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