Blazers claim 7 seed + Hornets advance
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Portland Trail Blazers Play-In victory over the Phoenix Suns and look ahead to their playoff series against the Spurs. Then, Brian Geisinger joins the show after LaMelo Ball's game winner to discuss the Hornets win over the Heat, overcoming their mistakes, and the Coby White game.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Brian Geisinger
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 15th, 2026. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Dave DeFore here with S. Perra Hennie coming up to play in games in the books, |
| 0:09.6 | two wild games, Blazers moving on. |
| 0:12.0 | We got Brian Gisinger here to talk about the Hornets big win. |
| 0:22.5 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:24.2 | What's up, S? |
| 0:25.5 | How about that? |
| 0:26.6 | Two for two. |
| 0:28.4 | No blowouts. |
| 0:29.2 | No notes. |
| 0:31.1 | The Blazers did not tank. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, it was funny. |
| 0:33.7 | I heard it on the broadcast. |
| 0:47.3 | This was post-technical difficulties, but I heard it on the broadcast that we had to endure 82 games of regular season basketball to get to this, which might be a telling tale for what people think of regular season basketball. |
| 0:49.3 | But the playoffs have been incredible. |
| 0:58.2 | Two playing games have been just awesome theatrical hoops, guys tripped getting injured shop making overtime it's it's been great yeah it's been very very it was a pretty good night uh not |
| 1:03.6 | a great night for the suns uh no blazers pick up a big win denny abdia has 41 points as the Blazers win 114, 110. |
| 1:14.4 | S, this was a, it was a bit of a weird game. The Blazers are 27th in three-point shooting. |
| 1:22.6 | And they go 12 of 27 in the first half. And I mean, the sons have been one of the best three point shooting teams all year. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.3 | And they only had hit one three at halftime. |
| 1:33.8 | And just, |
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