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Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

NBA Playoffs Picks & Reviewing NBA Season Wins Predictions

Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

NBA playoff shakeup as the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons emerge as dark horse contenders, while star injuries threaten to derail Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers’ postseason dreams. Josh Lloyd predicts Denver Nuggets will edge out Minnesota Timberwolves, but are the Oklahoma City Thunder poised for another dominant run? Heated commentary on NBA’s “extraordinary circumstances” rule sparks debate about Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham’s controversial absences.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's take a look at the NBA playoffs, my predictions, and then also a look back at how I did in predicting season win totals.

0:10.8

Was it ugly? Probably. Michael Bolton.

0:12.7

Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the locked-on fantasy basketball podcast.

0:22.9

Let's get to it. Let's get to it. Indeed.

0:30.9

You are Locked-on Fantasy, your daily NBA Fantasy podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.

0:40.6

My name is Josh Lloyd and I am here under extraordinary circumstances.

0:45.6

And those circumstances are, I guess, that we're just going to talk about the NBA playoffs.

0:49.0

I'm going to give you a bit of a programming note.

0:51.3

I don't know exactly what my schedule is going to be in terms of what shows are coming

0:57.4

out when. They're going to come out and I'm going to be here with you all through the offseason.

1:00.5

But is Friday here at the moment for me? On Monday, I will be going into hospital for surgery on my knee

1:07.9

where I tore my ACL three years ago. Didn't know that I told my ACL three years ago. Found out about that about a year and a half ago. And it's been giving me problems for a long time, obviously. So we're going in there to try and fix it. There's been a lot of patella displacement and ligament stuff and some micro fracture stuff that has to be fixed. So I'm going into hospital on Monday. It's only going to be there, hopefully, a couple of days. But there'll be a couple of days, obviously, with no shows because I'll be in hospital. So next week, it'll be a little bit of a lighter load in terms of shows. But what we will have coming up is look back at sleeper and bus picks and what I hit on what I didn't hit on what I missed

1:44.6

what I got right all that sort of stuff reasons behind it team previews NBA draft stuff all that

1:48.7

stuff is still coming up because this week I had a couple of days off to decompress

1:52.9

after the season and then next week into hospital for a few days so that is where we're at

1:58.1

with all of that so what are we doing right now I'm going to go through my picks for the playoffs, the first two rounds. I'm going to give you those. I won't need to go, I'm not going to go too much further. Well, I'm not going to go any further than that. I'm going to give you my first two round playoff picks. And then look back at NBA win totals and talk about how I fared and where we went wrong and we try to keep ourselves

2:19.5

accountable as much as possible on this show so we'll go and do that.

2:23.7

Alright, let's have a look.

2:26.1

Let's take a look at the Western Conference, first round matchups.

2:31.3

As you can see on the screen, there was, and as you guys know, we haven't finished the plane yet, but I'm not waiting for that to finish to do this.

2:38.6

Let's talk about where we're at.

2:40.1

Minnesota and Denver, first round series.

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