Are the Grizzlies contenders? | Nikola Jokić’s MVP weekend
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
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Summary
Nikola Jokić followed up his 56 point performance in a loss to the Washington Wizards with 48 points in a win over the Atlanta Hawks. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni catch up on Nikola Jokić and his 104-point weekend, look into the Bucks recent success, and discuss the Grizzlies status as contenders. Finally, Es, Zena, and Dave look ahead to the NBA Cup semifinal matchups.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 9th, |
| 0:10.0 | 2024. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up, we had another big weekend in the NBA, and I've got a bunch of questions like, |
| 0:15.0 | are the bucks back? |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to take a look at the NBA Cup games coming up and make our picks. And we've got another edition of our all weekend team. |
| 0:36.7 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:37.2 | Good morning, S. Another big weekend in the NBA. |
| 0:42.4 | I honestly, I do not know how a normal fan would keep up with the NBA without listening to like three or four podcasts. |
| 0:50.7 | I was about to say by listening to this podcast. Yeah. |
| 0:53.1 | We're the answer. We're the answer. |
| 0:54.9 | We're the answer. |
| 0:56.4 | Shout out to like the guys that are doing the podcast post game. |
| 1:00.1 | Pod Maverick. |
| 1:01.0 | All those guys doing like crazy late nights so that I can stay informed on what's happening. |
| 1:05.9 | Guys, another big weekend. |
| 1:07.3 | And I'm left with questions here on Monday morning about what's happening in the league |
| 1:12.6 | and I'm going to start with the Milwaukee Bucks and ask you guys just straight up are the Bucks |
| 1:18.5 | back they have been eight and two in their last 10 Chris Middleton's back Janice been playing at an |
| 1:24.6 | MVP level what do you say yes Yes or no, Zina? |
| 1:29.9 | Depends. |
| 1:31.4 | Back to what? |
| 1:37.2 | When they went to the finals or back to what we expected them to be just because they have Janice and Damian Liller and Chris Middleton? |
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