Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 3rd, 2026.

I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi.

Coming up, NBA finals, fun, stats, and facts with Kyrthika Uthea Kumar.

Coming up next.

Good morning, everybody.

What is up, guys?

Hello, Kyrthika. Welcome to the show.

Hello, hello. Thanks for having me. How's it going? Raptor's fan. This is so awesome.

Statetician extraordinaire. This is great for me. This is awesome.

Eskis to see the inner working sometimes and now he's a... I do. I see both sides of the way.

If you're not watching on YouTube youtube you don't know that s is

for some reason holding a baseball bat i've i've started into a softball league uh so i'm i'm now

practicing as as uh we do this podcast what position yes uh what position you can you it's softball

you just you know co-ed you whatever position you want to play. Yeah, I'm just asking, Mike. Outfield, usually. Third base sometimes if they need me to. A lot of cool. Little mooky bets, you know what I mean? No problem. Okay. We'll gauge how good some of these fun facts are based off of how hard ass swings the bat that's that's right that's

actually the practice of this thing okay here think of before we get started um just tell us a little

bit about yourself and how you got into doing NBA stats i mean this is number one not a lot of women

doing it right it's not exactly you know most of the people that you know of when you

think of NBA stats is dudes. So you're a little bit of a trailblazer there. But also,

you are prolific. Every single night after a game, you're the first page I go to. I want to see

all of, okay, what's the craziest stat that Kyrthika has put out? Yeah.

So how'd you get into this?

Honestly, if you told me I'd be doing this two years ago, I wouldn't have believed you,

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