Are the Hawks better without Trae Young? + Pelicans fire Willie Green
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita recap all the action from the weekend. The gang discuss the play of Kevin Durant and Alperen Sengun to lead the Rockets to an overtime win over the Magic, Stephen Curry being a nightmare for Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs, and debate whether the Hawks are better without Trae Young. Then, they discuss the Pelicans treatment and firing of head coach Willie Green and the rash of injuries spreading around the NBA.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 17th, 2025. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Dave DeFore. |
| 0:12.5 | Here is Zina Keda and Esperi. |
| 0:14.7 | Coming up, big weekend, we're going to recap as much of it as we can. |
| 0:18.1 | We had Steph versus Wemby on Friday, crazy magic |
| 0:21.0 | Rockets game, and we got a bunch of injuries to get to. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, |
| 0:26.8 | guys. Another crazy weekend around the NBA. Good morning. Fun Sunday. I didn't, I thought we were |
| 0:33.7 | going to wind up talking Bulls, jazz, guys, because of all the double overtime. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, we will. |
| 0:39.1 | We will get to it. |
| 0:41.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:42.0 | Where do we start? |
| 0:42.9 | You guys want to start with the game, Magic Rockets on Sunday, the magic roll in there with no Palo Bancaro and S. |
| 1:00.6 | Unsurprisingly, the offense seemed to make a little bit of sense for the magic. Yeah, it did. |
| 1:02.0 | 21 assists tonight for the Orlando Magic. |
| 1:05.3 | Ball was flying a little bit. |
| 1:07.2 | Basically, every single player that played tonight had an assist. The playmaking pop from |
| 1:12.4 | Desmond Bain, who is getting downhill and creating his shots. Franz Wagner's has looked good |
| 1:17.4 | since Paolo's been out too. I don't think it's time yet to do the whole, are they better without |
| 1:22.9 | them? But they do look good. And honestly, they are playing better basketball since we kind of push them on the panic meter a couple of weeks back. |
| 1:30.9 | So they're starting to figure things out. |
| 1:33.3 | But at the same time, this Houston Rockets team is a machine at this point. |
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