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Austin Reaves game winner + Early season NBA trends

The Athletic NBA Daily

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Comedy, Unknown, Sports, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour and Zena Keita discuss some early season trends as the Chicago Bulls move to 4-0. Foul calls are through the roof, the defending champion Thunder can’t seem to shoot, and Austin Reaves appears to be taking a leap. Will it continue? Then, Hunter Patterson joins the show to discuss the Pistons win over the Magic, Cade Cunningham’s best game of the season, and Jalen Duren’s pending leap.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita and Hunter Patterson

Executive Producer: Andrew Schalch

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody


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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by eBay.

0:10.7

I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda.

0:12.9

And coming up, ooh, the Bulls move to four and oh, we're going to talk about it a little bit.

0:17.0

Austin Reeves had a game winner.

0:18.6

We're going to talk about some early season trends,

0:25.6

including Austin Reeves scoring, which has been insane. And then Hunter Patterson comes by to talk about Cade Cunningham and the Pistons' best game of the season. Good morning, everybody.

0:32.6

Good morning, Zena. another crazy Wednesday night.

0:39.1

You know, this was not, look,

0:41.1

it was not the greatest Wednesday night on this schedule.

0:56.1

There were a bunch of duds. I'm not going to lie. It's why we, you know, we were like, oh, hey, well, it's good chance. We can catch up. It's been a week since the season started. let's talk about some of this stuff that's kind of goofy and early. And then Austin Reeves goes and hits a game winner to lift the Lakers without Luca, without LeBron, over the Minnesota Timberwolves without Anthony Edwards because everybody's injured right now.

1:05.4

But man, early season trends. Austin Reeves just busted it, opened the door like a bull in a china shop.

1:14.0

Here he is.

1:15.4

He goes 28, 16 assists in this game.

1:20.0

We know he's been scoring like crazy.

1:22.2

Like I said, 34.2 points per game now through five games for him.

1:27.2

The last few games, luka out there i mean

1:30.1

he you know he had 92 points in two games he follows it up with a game like this you knew he was

1:35.7

going to get the ball in that spot zena i felt like he was going to make it this is a bit of a leap

1:41.1

at least internally for me in the way that I've perceived, Austin Reeves,

1:45.5

the start of this season could not have gone better for him. Yeah, no, you take that last

1:50.8

play, him coming off that screen, being able to see Rudy Gobert over hedging. Rudy Gobert was

1:56.7

ready for him to keep going lateral, I guess maybe to swing it to the other side. I'm not sure what Rudy was going for.

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