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On today's show, we have more on the Janus trade situation to get to,

including a team in the Western Conference that could be looming as a potential facilitator or even a potential destination.

Plus, did the Cavs just make a trade that could help them come out of the Eastern Conference?

All of that and more on today's Locked on NBA Daily.

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Hello and welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network. However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your podcast app. Thanks for making us your first listen every day. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code locked on for $20 off of your first purchase. I'm Wes Goldberg. Today, we're talking about the the Yannis trade front and a three-way trade that took place over the weekend between the Cavs, Kings, and Bulls. We're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's a senior NBA writer at the Action Network. Matt Moore, Matt? Was that Nuggets Thunder last night? It was, I wouldn't say a great game because of how the Thunder dominated, but it was a real statement performance from them. Shea Gilles Alexander was absolutely sublime last night. If you want to understand why Shea is a great player, he's like, he's just a free throw merchant. Go watch last night's game. He did take 13 free throws.

But go watch last night's game and you'll understand why. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, also Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report, it's Hayes. Unlike me and Wes's teams, the played each other three times over this weekend. We give total effort every single show. That's right. Yes, we do. Matt, we don't have time to get into that Thunder Nuggets game because we have so much trade deadline stuff to get to here, but is your takeaway just Shea? Is there anything else that we could potentially take away from what could potentially be the Western Conference Finals here? There's so many guys who are hurt for that game. Yeah, there's, you know, each team, you know, it's like this back and forth where it's like nuggets fans are like we didn't have aaron gordon and cam johnson and christian brown and the thunder are like we didn't have a j mitchell and uh jilliams and it's crazy that i'm saying a j mitchell before jill and williams that's how good a j mitchell has been i been. I think AJ Mitchell might be six man of the year, by the way.

Or Alice Caruso, so it's like this big back and forth. A lot of tactical stuff that I think is really interesting. One thing I will tell you, if you're going to be the Thunder, you're going to put five weapons on the floor. If you have three weapons and two non-weapons, you're dead. So you got to put five weapons on the floor at all times. And Yolkich has not been able to figure out how to beat this team yet. We will talk about on the court basketball at some point, but it is NBA trade deadline week. And we have to start with the latest on the Janus trade front. According to the latest reporting, it's still the Heat Warriors, Knicks and Timberwolves that are being mentioned as the most aggressive suitors before Thursday's trade deadline.

Shams reported this morning that the Bucks are making counteroffers and do seem motivated

to try to get something done here before the deadline.

But over at Lockdown Bucks, they're not impressed with what the reported trade packages that

these teams can offer could potentially bring in for Milwaukee.

Here's more from them.

I just don't think these

trade packages are compelling i acknowledge that i am a bucks fan um but if atlanta was actually

like offering the the north oleans pick and jalen johnson or you know i mean you could argue even like

not jalen john, but I mean,

unfortunately, Risa Shea is like obviously.

Yeah, but like the New Orleans pick multiple picks.

Multiple picks, including like a premium like unprotected, really high pick this coming

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