Beal vs. LaVine | Who can beat the Thunder in the west?
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies battled it out for second place in the West. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Jared McCain injury news, the Cavs 12th straight win, and debate Bradley Beal vs. Zach LaVine as trade candidates. The Athletic’s Kelly Iko joins the show to talk about the Rockets win over the Grizzlies, Reed Shepherd in the G League, Jimmy Butler’s fit in Memphis, and who matches up with the Thunder in the West.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Kelly Iko
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 10th, 2025. |
| 0:11.3 | Coming up, the Cavs were playing the Raptors in what could have been a letdown game, |
| 0:15.9 | but luckily, Darius Garland exists. |
| 0:18.5 | Kelly Yucco stops by to talk about the Rockets and the Griis and to let us know which team is a better fit for Jimmy Butler. |
| 0:34.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.9 | Good morning, yes. |
| 0:37.4 | A little bit of, we got some bad news to just start the show. |
| 0:43.0 | First, the Hornets game against the Lakers out here in L.A. |
| 0:47.6 | postponed due to the massive L.A. fires, which if you're listening or watching, you no doubt know about. |
| 0:53.9 | We wanted to send out |
| 0:54.9 | our thoughts and prayers to everybody affected by these fires. I've had a lot of friends, |
| 0:59.4 | you know, personally have a lot of friends who have had to evacuate. We learned today that |
| 1:04.0 | Lakers head coach JJ Redick, his house was lost in a fire. You know, so it's a very sad time |
| 1:09.9 | around here, but generally everywhere. |
| 1:12.4 | So I definitely want to send out our thoughts to everybody affected by the fires. |
| 1:17.0 | The basketball game, guess what? |
| 1:18.6 | They can make it up some of the time. |
| 1:19.7 | Does not matter. |
| 1:20.1 | Not a big deal. |
| 1:21.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:21.8 | Other bad news, Sixers bright spot, Jared McCain, going to be out for the year with that torn meniscus after surgery. |
| 1:30.2 | We had gotten an update that he was healing pretty well, but about a month ago. |
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