Good afternoon and welcome to Locked on NBA Daily. On today's show, the Bucks want to be buyers at the deadline, but is there something that they could do that will actually make a difference or even better convince Janus to stay? Meanwhile, what role players can get moved at the deadline that can actually move the needle for an NBA title contender? All of that and more on today's Lockon NBA Daily.

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I'm Wes Goldberg today. We're talking about what the bucks could do before the trade deadline and which team could be this season's 2024 Dallas Mavericks. 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, you've seen her NBA writer over at the Action Network. It's Matt more. Matt. my ADHD is in hyper-focused mode this morning, so I've gotten a bunch of stuff down and Twitter's been down. So I've written like 17 things. My brain is racing a mile a minute. I'm ready to talk to NBA. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, also a Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes. It's Friday, y'all. We made it through another week. A great content. There you guys go. There it is. One more show to go.

We're going to start. creator for Bleacher Report. It's Hayes. It's Friday, y'all. We made it through another week.

Great content. There you guys go. There it is. One more show to go. We're going to start this one with the Milwaukee Bucks who lost to the Spurs last night and have dropped to two games behind 10th place in the

Eastern Conference. And yet, all of the reporting still indicates that they won't trade Janus

before the deadline. Instead, they're looking to be buyers to try to improve the roster and make a run.

But is there a move that could vault the Bucks into the playoffs?

Here's more from Lockdown Bucks.

We know the trade deadline is coming up.

We know the Bucks have been active in this deadline.

They're in all the rumors.

You're hearing them talk.

I'm looking at this roster and I'm trying to think, is there a move where you can put that

2031 first round draft pick in it to get something back where you feel like it's worth it for

this season and going forward. And based off the play of this roster as of late,

to your point, I don't know if it's just simple as, hey, maybe they need to kind of shake the

coaching up and you can get some better results here. I honestly don't think that there is like

a magic move the bucks can make at this deadline that can put them into like instant contention. But the flip

side to that is like, well, there's still only like three games in the laws column behind

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