Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 22nd,

2026.

I'm Dave DeFore here with Fred Katz and Zena Keda.

Coming up, we go deep with Fred Katz on Norm Powell's bowlegs and also the Knicks and

where they're going to go from here.

Good morning, everybody. What's up, Zena? What's up, Fred? Welcome back. How's it going,

buddy? Going great. I'm committed to short, dispassionate answers for the entire episode.

See, this is the problem. All right, just to pull back the veil a little bit for people listening at home.

See, Fred is one of our favorite guests on the show because we do this every single day.

And Fred doesn't. And he always has so much to say

that we get to just sit back a little bit. And I'm not going to say these are rants because,

you know, that that implies that it's a negative thing. These are more like they're not my

monologues either. They're just NBA lectures. Like we're in college, we're learning something.

NBA lectures with Fred Katz. I've been playing around with what we call this, but I like that.

NBA professor cats. There you go. I mean, look, look, if there's one way to get people to listen to a

podcast, it's to tell them, hey, this guy who's on, not only does he talk too much,

but he's also going to lecture you. I would say that Dave, you're correct in that it's not

because it's because I'm not on here all the time, except every single person in my life

tells me to shut the hell up 19 times a day.

So I don't know if that's necessarily true.

Stefan Bondi from the New York Post, and I have a great joke because he and I are very good friends.

And Bondi writes for the Post and like New York, you know, newspapers have these incredibly high

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