Good afternoon and welcome to Locked on NBA Daily.

On today's show, the NBA trade deadline is less than two weeks away.

We're going to go rapid fire through some NBA trade candidates.

Plus, do the Lakers suffer from trust issues?

And can Tyrese Maxi lead the Sixers to a place that Joel and Bede could not?

You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

Hello, and welcome back to Lockdown 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 GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code Lockdown NBA for $20 off your first purchase. I'm Wes Goldberg. Today, we're talking about the latest NBA trade deadline until the struggling Lakers and, and the always enjoyable Tyrese Maxie, and 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, senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt. Matt.

Happy Friday to everybody as a gift to my co-host.

I would like them to invite them to go listen to Locked On Rockets and hear those folks talk about Al Alper and Shangoon and his performance last night since they thought he was a for sure

all-star.

From the Locked on Bulls podcast also Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report, it's Hayes.

Hayes, Matt's got a point there.

Yeah, I love it when Max has an axe to grind, when Matt has an X to grind, but more times than he still ends up on the wrong side of history. We are less than a week away from the, less than two weeks away, rather, from the February 5th trade deadline, and there has been plenty of recent reports about which players could be available. So what we're going to do here is we're going to go rapid fire through some names that are out there

and I want to get your guys' takes on them. Let's start with this report from the athletic

that says that Hornets forward Miles Bridges is drawing significant interest from the Bucks,

Warriors, and Sons. Matt, what do you think about Bridges and potentially the fit with one of those

teams? The Bucks and Warriors, more on the desperate side, the Phoenix Suns is an interesting conclusion there. Yeah, the Suns actually had interest in him too last year as well. Like they've been, they've done a lot of business with Charlotte. You'll notice that Mark Williams, Nick Richard, both on the Phoenix Suns. They've done a lot of work with Charlotte, so that makes a lot of sense from that perspective. I should, you know, it's Friday. Everybody's trying to get the weekend. I should be restrained. Am I? No, I don't think I will. So it's going to be great when the Bucks have Kevin Porter and Miles Bridges on the same team. Two guys who, by the way, should not be in the NBA. Can't wait. Can't wait for that combination. And there are some other names that I would throw out there as well historically, but I'm going to leave those out. I think it's gross that there's all these teams. One, by the way, the plus minus the Bridges is terrible. If he's not buffeted by Brandon Miller and Lamello Ball. And Bridges' efforts sometimes is absolutely just horrendous. Just from a basketball standpoint, I think he's a losing player. He comes with all of the baggage. I do not think these teams should be trading for him. But I do think that, like, if you, if teams think you can help the Bucs being this desperate haze is bad to look at Bobbriges. That's the thing that's the loudest thing about is that like

let's look at the bucks that we've heard the players that we've heard the

...