Anthony Edwards carries Minnesota | Beal benched; Suns win
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
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Summary
The Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a 19-point deficit as Anthony Edwards poured in 37 points en route to a 108-106 victory of the Los Angeles Clippers. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Wolves big lineup change, Edwards’ night, and Kyrie Irving’s injury. Then, Sam Cooper, from the Timeline Podcast about the Phoenix Suns, stops by to discuss the Suns’ win over Philadelphia, Bradley Beal coming off the bench, and if a trade can save Phoenix’s season. Then, Es and Dave throw a party for the Pistons as they make it to 18-18 and wonder if Cade Cunningham is going to make All-NBA.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Sam Cooper
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 7th, 2025. |
| 0:11.2 | Coming up, the wolves got their groove back against the clippers. |
| 0:14.5 | Sam Cooper from the Timeline podcast is here to talk about the suns and their bad vibes. |
| 0:18.6 | And the Pistons are 500. |
| 0:21.6 | So we're going to have a party. |
| 0:22.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.7 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:37.5 | Another busy Monday night in the NBA. |
| 0:42.2 | The sons, you know, the trade rumors, they got lineup changes. |
| 0:46.1 | So we got Sam Cooper to talk about that after the break. |
| 0:48.9 | But let's start with the game of the night. |
| 0:50.6 | We had the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Clippers in Minnesota. |
| 0:55.7 | Kauai Leonard, game two. But right before the game, as we found out there was going to be a |
| 1:01.4 | lineup change and not the magic bullet lineup change. We all thought with Julius Randall maybe |
| 1:06.5 | going to the bench instead. It's Mike Conley going to the bench dante de vincenzo moving into the starting |
| 1:13.3 | lineup i got to ask you was it the magic bullet for them uh yes and no they didn't start out the game |
| 1:21.6 | as good as you think they would the clippers just absolutely dominated them especially in kawai's |
| 1:26.2 | minutes early in the first |
| 1:28.4 | half. |
| 1:29.5 | But that being said, I think it was the right decision to bench Conley and bring Dante |
| 1:34.2 | Devincento in. |
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