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Welcome to the middle class of the East.

One of these teams don't belong here.

We'll tell you who it is after this.

This is Lockdown Podcast Network's 202424 NBA Season Preview,

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Welcome back to the 2024 locked on NBA season previews.

This episode, we are focused on the teams predicted by

Fandall to land in the middle class of the Eastern Conference. A reminder that

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Visit fanswell.com to get started. I'm West Goldberg, host of Lockdown Heat, and I'll be your host for this preview.

Joining me or my colleagues from the lockdown

podcast network including Tony East of lockdown Pacers

Walker Mail of locked on Hornets, Philip Rossman Reich of

locked on Magic and Brad Roland of locked on Hawks will join us later on. Today we're going to take a look at what are some realistic expectations for each of these teams, what makes a successful season, what one thing could derail each team season we'll take a look at win totals

and we're gonna get to each other we're gonna get we're gonna give each other

flowers before we enter a season-long battle for the

conference against each other. So everyone, before we get into some of these

questions that we have prepared here, elephant in the room? Is there a team that doesn't really belong here?

Well, I mean, I'll tell you this, I immediately feel hurt. So if I'm the one that is

immediately defensive, then I feel like all eyes are on me. I feel like I'm the elephant with the hornets not belonging here. This does very much feel like the friend that is kind of close, but you're not sure if you're going to get an invite to their wedding.

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