Which NBA stars would be most vulnerable to a team shakeup if they were to suffer a first round exit?

The regular season resumes tonight and the Los Angeles Lakers are ready to ramp Luca up.

What is it going to mean for their standing in the Western Conference?

And are the Boston Celtics finally waking up from their post-title slumber?

I'll ask Matt and Hayes, all of that and more today on Locked-on NBA.

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your team every day. I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown Hornets and your

shot clock Sherpa guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories with the help of Lockdown's

local experts. And with me are two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts from the

Lockdown Nuggets podcast and senior NBA writer for the Action Network. He's the man of a thousand

podcast. It's Matt Moore.

Hi, Doug. Hi, Doug. Hi, Doug. How are you? You good? I'm good, man. I'm good, man. I would know

we were supposed to do like a little cute intro. I'll have a better one for you tomorrow.

Gotcha. And from the Locked on Bulls podcast, he's our Prince of Petty. It's Hayes.

Stop tagging me in New York Pizza versus Tavern-style coffee. I did not say what I said yesterday to start a whole new argument, people.

Well, listen, that's the whole reason we're here. That's the whole reason we exist is to start new arguments. All right,

let's move to a game to start this show called I Spy. And we'll start with a quote from

Howard Beck on a recent podcast who said, quote, I'm constantly checking in with executives

around trade deadline about what we saw, what we didn't see, what's next. And in this league,

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