Big nights for Steph Curry and Jokić + OKC keeps rolling
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
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Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to Nikola Jokić dropping 55 points on the Clippers, Bradley Beal's season-ending injury, and Steph Curry's electric 3rd quarter enroute to 46 points. Then, Hunter Patterson joins the show to breakdown the Pistons short-handed win, Cade Cunningham's leap, and their start to the season.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Hunter Patterson
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 13th, 2025. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Dave DeFora here with Zena Keda. |
| 0:13.9 | Coming up, Nicola Yokic had a crazy night against the Clippers. |
| 0:18.2 | Steph Curry went off against Wembe and the Spurs. |
| 0:21.0 | And the Pistons were short-handed, but still picked up a win. |
| 0:23.7 | So we talked to Hunter Patterson about that hot start to the season. |
| 0:31.1 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:32.6 | Good morning, Zina. |
| 0:34.2 | Good morning, Dave. |
| 0:36.0 | Kind of a weird Wednesday night in the NBA. |
| 0:41.0 | You know, seven teams were playing the second night of a back-to-back. |
| 0:46.3 | This is all influenced by the NBA Cup. |
| 0:48.8 | The NBA trying to make sure that the teams don't have a back-to-back for those Friday night marquee games. I can understand the reasoning. But Zina, it's killing us on Wednesday. We're getting blowouts. We're getting, I mean, the Piston set seven guys. Yeah. I mean, we're getting duds on national television. I'm setting up a million screens in my house trying to watch everything. It's a lot. |
| 1:12.1 | And there's only one team, it seems, that doesn't get impacted by this. |
| 1:15.3 | And that's OKC, but the rest, yeah. |
| 1:18.2 | OKC blowing out Golden State and the Lakers in successive nights while still |
| 1:24.8 | shorthanded themselves. |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah, that's they are a problem. |
| 1:29.9 | I might have undersold them by saying 70 wins, Zina. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm just. |
| 1:33.9 | I think we all did. |
| 1:35.6 | I think we all did. |
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