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4.2 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Do James Harden & Joel Embiid make the Philadelphia 76ers NBA Finals favorites? Can Giannis Antetokounmpo lead the Milwaukee Bucks back to the title? Why are the Miami Heat being overlooked as contenders? Why are the Chicago Bulls Championship Odds sooooo low? Wait… How did the Cleveland Cavaliers get here?! Wes Goldberg ( @Locked On Heat ) is joined by Kane Pitman ( @Locked On Bucks ), Matt Peck ( @Locked On Bulls ), and Evan Dammarell ( @Locked On Cavs ) to discuss the top teams in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. Can James Harden overcome his playoff history to win a title in Philly? What can the Heat top 5 of Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Kyle Lowry, Tyler Herro, and PJ Tucker do when they play together? How can the Bucks overcome their defensive deficiencies? What should we expect from DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine in the Playoffs? In the preseason Locked On had the Cavs in the Tankers Roundtable, how did they jump all the way to the top? . 🎧 Follow Every Locked On NBA Show: Linktree.com/LockedOnNBA . Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! | Offers from our sponsors: lockedonpodcasts.com/offers PrizePicks - Check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “NBA” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy! Built Bar - Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline - BetOnline..net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! 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. TrueBill - Don’t fall for subscription scams. Start cancelling today at Truebill.com/LOCKEDONNBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to our top of the Eastern Conference roundtable where we'll talk to the host covering the heat,
0:04.4	Bulls, Sixers, calves, and bucks to discuss the tightest and most interesting race in the NBA.
0:09.4	Which team will come out on top and make it to the finals. We'll break it all down next.
0:12.8	You are locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the locked on podcast network,
0:21.4	your team every day.
0:24.1	All right, welcome to a locked on podcast network
0:26.8	special, the top of the Eastern Conference Roundtable.
0:29.9	I'm West Goldberg from Lockdown Heat.
0:31.6	Joined by our hosts covering the Bulls, Sixers, Cabs, Heat, Heit, joined by our hosts,
0:32.8	covering the Bulls, Sixers, Cabs, and Bucks.
0:34.4	We've got Evan Damorale from Lockdown Cavaliers,
0:36.9	Matt Peck from Lockdown Bulls,
0:38.3	Kane Pittman from Lockdown Bucks,
0:40.6	and we've got a lot to get into. So let just jump right in fellows with what happened at the trade deadline
0:47.2	Do any of the changes at the deadline affect the landscape of the Eastern conference or how you view the playoffs. I'm going to open it up to
0:56.4	number two in the Eastern Conference, not number one, just yet. Matt Peck, what do you
1:01.6	think Matt? Well we're not calling it a tie for first at the all-star break, really? That's how we're playing this. That's how we're doing it. Okay, yeah, I mean, as far as the Hardin Simmons swap, I think it's very hard to know the answer to that right now.
1:14.4	If anybody is trying to tell you right now, they know the answer of what that trade does in the
1:19.0	east, they're lying.
1:21.6	Or at the very best pontificating. I think that Brooklyn got the better side of that, assuming
1:27.8	Simmons is mentally ready to play and physically ready to play. Obviously people talking about Harden and Embeed being like an amazing
1:37.7	unstoppable one two combo. I'm just looking over the track record of James Harden's
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