Brunson sends Pistons packing
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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Summary
The New York Knicks move on to round 2 after their game 6 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Zena Keita is joined by James Edwards III of the Athletic to discuss the Knicks winning the series and how they will play against the Celtics, and how the Pistons build off their first Playoff run. Then in segment 2 Zena is joined by Dave DuFour from the LA Clippers vs. Denver Nuggets game to discuss the Clippers pushing the series to 7 games.
Host: Zena Keita
With: Andrew Schlecht, Hunter Patterson and Dave DuFour
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Zena Kato. |
| 0:10.5 | We are going to be covering the game sixes across the Western and Eastern Conference. |
| 0:16.0 | David Diffour is actually at the LA Clippers Denver Nuggets game. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll catch up with him in a second. |
| 0:20.1 | But first, |
| 0:27.1 | James Edwards. The third is here to break down how the Detroit Pistons ended their season. |
| 0:40.4 | James, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. Running on fumes, but that's playoff basketball. I think we all are. |
| 0:46.8 | I think we all are, including the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons. They close out their series. |
| 0:56.6 | I think, you know, if you're looking at the two sides of the NBA sphere, New York, Detroit was pretty much the most interesting, most fun series overall. |
| 1:03.8 | You think about a series that ended 4'2, decisive scores 15-point differential between all six games. Very tight series. Actually, second in NBA history to have four straight games |
| 1:10.5 | decided by three points or fewer. |
| 1:12.6 | The last time that happened was in 1984 in the Eastern Conference finals with the Celtics and the 76ers. |
| 1:18.1 | So New York, Detroit making some history. Of course, Detroit made their own history, getting to the playoffs, |
| 1:24.7 | winning a playoff game, but they weren't able to win at home, James. |
| 1:30.4 | I want to start first and foremost with the Knicks because we saw a Brunton clinic, |
| 1:37.8 | a Brunson burner. |
| 1:39.0 | As the Knicks would say, bad boy Brunson came out. |
| 1:41.3 | I mean, 40 Burger, four rebound four rebound seven assists but particularly once again |
| 1:46.2 | another unbelievable clutch performance i mean he cooks up the craziest moves despite um sarah thompson |
| 1:55.5 | having unbelievable clamps on him in the fourth quarter like are you surprised at all by what Brunson is capable of doing in the fourth quarter? No, it's, it's hard to describe, or it's, it's, I'm tired of describing it. Not hard to describe it. I'm tired of describing it. This guy's been doing it all year. Listen, there's been numerous game winners, numerous-ahead buckets if somebody tells you they |
| 2:18.6 | remember them all this season their line um there was like a five or six game stretch at the end |
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