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A wild day in Milwaukee yesterday.

We'll talk about the latest Janus Trade Report and an update on his injury.

Plus, it's make-take-it-thursday.

I'll ask Matt and Hayes whether the Mavericks have turned around their season.

Then we'll take a step back and check in on the early MVP race.

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We're talking about the best, the honest trade destinations, and what's wrong with the Cavs and the Bulls? We're doing it with the help of lockdowns local experts. I have two of the best with me, as always. From the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, he's your senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. Matt. Did you have a chance to mention it yesterday. I did want to say, rest in peace, to Alden Campbell passed away this week. NBA legend played for a number of teams, including the Lakers. I just want to give a quick shout out there to his, obviously, condolences to his friends and family. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, he's the Bears and Bulls creator for Bleach Report, it's Hayes. Hey, my team sucks. I'm just glad that we don't have to talk about the bull. Oh, wait, Wes did put the Bulls on the topic list for today. There you guys go. We also have to talk about the heat who lost to the Mavericks last night. Which I predicted. You did predict that. That's right. Something that nobody predicted, a wild day in Milwaukee, just after, just hours after Shams reported that Yannis and the Bucks are in discussions about whether to seek a trade. Janus is sitting on the court with a non-contact calf injury five minutes into their game against the Detroit Pistons. The Bucks have ruled out in Achilles injury, and now they have ruled out, they have ruled them out for the next two to four weeks with a calf strain, a ton of get into here.

But first, here's locked on Bucks with more on what was a roller coaster day.

We need to actually start at the beginning.

Just to get a full idea of what the last 8 to 12 hours has been like in Milwaukee

been like for Bugs fans because ESPN dropped another trade rumor saying that

Janice and his agent have started conversations with the Bucks about Janice's future and

discussing whether his best fit is in Milwaukee or somewhere else.

ESPN stated that a resolution was expected in the coming weeks.

And then you have Doc Rivers before the game, pretty much saying like, this is all

cat.

A lot of different emotions.

Yeah, but like we've been preparing for this, right? Like nobody should be. Shot. Blown away. That this is even in the ether right now. Exactly. Exactly. I don't think, I don't think people should be in the naive and saying like, oh, see, Shams, Doc said, it didn't happen. So he's happy, you know, like, come on. There's still a window, like, and that gets back to my point of, like, the disappointment of being like, I thought this wasn't going to be an end season thing. Like, let this be just offseason talk, if anything. Like, once you made the decision this year, let's see it through. Just see it through, my boy. Like, let's see what this looks like. Time to get to, Matt. How did we get here? Hmm How did we get here hmm how did we get here uh so

brian went horse yesterday on um on a radio hit that he did was talking about how you know

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