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On today's show, it's a month before the trade deadline.

So we're going to look around the league and talk about which teams have to make a trade mid-season.

Plus is one of those teams the Oklahoma City Thunder?

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Hello and welcome to Locked-on NBA Daily, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network,

now the number one sports podcast network. However you're tuning in on YouTube or your podcast app, thanks so much for making us your first listen every day. I'm Wes Goldberg. Today, we're talking about which teams need to make a trade before the deadline, the thunder showing some flaws in Jalen Brown, forcing his way into the MVP conversation. 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. He's a senior NBA writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore, Matt. Dennis Jenkins doesn't talk about enough. The stuff that he's doing for the for the pistons and how good he's been for being a two-way guy, he's the type of player that I wish we got more coverage of because we're so star-heavy

in this league.

And the guys that come out of nowhere and have these runs where they really impact their

teams and they become vital contributors.

Like those are great stories.

That's the product of hard work and having believed in yourself and pushed yourself

and gaining that opportunity. So shout to Danis Jenkins, who I really enjoyed watching this season for the Pistons. Great way to start the Monday pod from the lockdown Bulls podcast. Also Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes. What's going on everybody? I hope you guys are ready for a very, very petty year. That's all I can say. I'm just keep pushing it let's push the pettiness pettiness for Danes Jenkins no I actually

like Dennis Jenkins okay kid not like Danes Jenkins come on now I could you not

like him he's got way more S's than you think he has today marks a month before

the February 5th trade deadline so I wanted to ask you guys about which teams we think need to make a mid-season trade. But before we do that, Matt George from

Lockdown Kings had an interesting observation from the weekend about Zach Levine's return from

an injury in their game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Here's more from Matt. But suddenly it makes

a whole lot of sense for the Kings and for Zach, if he's interested in going to Milwaukee,

to play in tonight's game and audition for the Milwaukee Bucks, who are, again, the only team that I've heard and read and seen that there really has any sort of legitimate possible connection to a potential Levine trade.

Now, I'll be honest with you, regardless of what he did tonight, even if he scored 50 points,

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