5 Burning NBA Questions | Morning Shoot Around
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni discuss 5 questions about the NBA Season:
1. If the Playoffs started today, which of the top 6 seeds in either conference does nobody fear?
2. Which superstar is under the most pressure in the 2nd half of the season?
3. Which role player has had the biggest breakout this season (non-all star)
4. Which young team are you picking to make it past round 1 of the Playoffs?
5. Which team is in need of the biggest face lift at the trade deadline in order to make a push this season
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni, Zena Keita
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the NBA Daily morning shoot-around our Wednesday YouTube live stream. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi Hennie, Zena Keda, Andrew Select, out sick. |
| 0:19.2 | Oof. |
| 0:23.9 | He's back for vacation and picked up a cold. |
| 0:28.5 | Having too much fun after the thunder smacked the spurs up. |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah, we know the truth. |
| 0:33.9 | Guys, thank you guys for joining us if you're watching us on YouTube. |
| 0:36.5 | If you're listening to the podcast, we appreciate you. |
| 0:55.1 | But we're also trying to build up our YouTube. So come and check that out, subscribe to it. We're going to do more live stuff. I believe by the time we get to the playoffs, you know, we really might be going live after some of these big playoff matchups. So come and relive, you know, the night before or whatever with us. Over on YouTube, it's a fun time. |
| 0:58.4 | We take questions from the chat and try to mix it up a little bit. |
| 1:00.7 | Kind of had this thought, guys. |
| 1:02.6 | We're at the halfway mark of the season. |
| 1:08.5 | Got some questions about the season so far and where we're heading. |
| 1:11.9 | Let's just jump right in because it's a lot to get to. |
| 1:14.5 | If the playoff started today, guys, |
| 1:21.2 | which of the top six seeds in either conference is nobody afraid of? |
| 1:26.1 | Man. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, that is spicy. That's right. |
| 1:29.3 | Who are the biggest frauds? |
| 1:31.3 | I think is really the question. |
| 1:33.3 | Um, so we're starting with okay. |
| 1:36.3 | No, okay. |
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