Race for 8 in the West, Raptors' Chances and the Second-Best Player in the East

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Wes Goldberg, David Ramil and Ben Golliver ask if the Grizzlies can hang on the No. 8 seed in the West and, if not, who they like to get the final playoff spot. Then they debate the Raptors' chances of coming out of the East before discussing who the second-best player in the conference behind Giannis Antetokounmpo is, and their favorite things about Disney World. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rad Power Bikes Right now as a limited time offer, get a free accessory with the purchase of a bike. That’s right. And FREE shipping to the lower 48 states. To get this special offer, text the word LOCKED to 64-000. Freshly Join almost ONE AND A HALF MILLION Satisfied Customers and skip the shopping, prepping, cooking, and clean up. Freshly is offering our listeners FORTY DOLLARS OFF FOR THEIR FIRST TWO ORDERS at freshly.com/lockedonnba Manscaped Go to Manscaped.com and use code LOCKED to get 20% Off and Free Shipping. Manscaped is #1 in men’s below the belt grooming and offers precision-engineered tools for your family jewels. Helix RIGHT NOW Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off ALL mattress orders and two free pillows. Get up to 200 dollars off at Helixsleep.com/lockedonnba Theragun Try Theragun RISK-FREE for THIRTY-DAYS. Go to Theragun.com/LOCKEDON right now and get your Gen 4 Theragun TODAY. MyBookie Join today and MyBookie will match your deposit 100%, plus they’ll toss you a Free $10 MLB Future wager. All you gotta do is enter promo code LOCKEDONNBA when signing up. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lockton
0:08.0	Locks on NBA, your daily NBA podcast,
0:11.0	part of the Lockton Podcast Network. I'm Wes Goldberg
0:14.4	host of Lock On Warriors here with David the Mill, post of Lockton Meat and
0:18.0	joining us from the bubble is the Washington Post Ben Goliver. We have a great show
0:22.4	today. We're going to talk about
0:23.4	Toronto's chances to come out of the east and who in that conference is the second
0:27.7	best player behind Janus. But let's start today in the Western Conference and
0:31.6	the race for the 8th seat in the playoffs. and the race for the eight seed in the playoffs after Monday night the
0:34.3	Grizzlies after beating the pelicans still have a lead over the spurs but the spurs
0:40.7	beat or the spurs narrowly lose to the Sixers Monday night
0:44.5	They're followed by the trailblazers and the pelicans the pelicans of course beat the the
0:49.9	Grizzlies on Monday night Ben do you think the Grizzlies can hold on with their lead in the Western Conference?
0:56.7	Well look it's getting really really tight I thought the biggest development was actually that
1:00.8	Pelicans win over the Grizzlies on the pelican side of things because look if they had lost that game and started the bubble oh and three
1:08.4	Zion's not getting on track something along those lines I think we would probably be able to say, hey,
1:13.3	this race is just too tight, there's too many teams involved.
1:16.3	New Orleans looks like they're falling out of it,
1:17.9	even though they have a really easy remaining
1:20.1	strength of schedule.
1:21.4	Now I think that storyline flips a little bit. Now New Orleans has some momentum.
1:25.4	Zion extended his minutes tonight to play 25 minutes. He looked good really for the first time since he's been down here and now he's in the mix. So I think what we've seen by
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