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Can Cade Cunningham Do It By Himself?

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Cavaliers taking down the Pistons without Donovan Mitchell, Cade Cunningham’s rough night, and the how the Knicks exposed the Raptors flaws. Then, Tony Jones joins the show after the Sixers were dismantled by Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs to discuss Joel Embiid’s return and Philly’s playoff hopes.




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Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni and Tony Jones

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver


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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for March 4th,

0:13.5

2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Esparan. Coming up, the Cavs, get one back on the Pistons.

0:19.9

The Raptors just do not have it and tony jones is

0:23.4

here to talk about the sixers after getting crushed by wimby and the spurs good morning everybody

0:34.4

good morning yes what's up morning um man, living the dream, as always.

0:39.9

Yeah. Watching basketball for a living, not too bad. Not too bad. Not too bad. You should do it in a place that has better weather than Toronto, though, man. I highly recommend it. I got a tan and it's the first week of March.

0:52.2

Very good. Yeah, things are great. We did add some sunlight, though, this week, right? Daylight savings is out the window. We added an hour or something. We will add it, right? That's coming up. I don't know. Did we already do it? I have no idea. It's a silly concept. If anybody wants to do anything about that, please, you know, call your senator. I agree.

1:11.4

Low on the list of things to do. But, you know, hey, throw that one in there.

1:15.9

Hey, we got to talk about the calves. They get one back on the Pistons.

1:20.1

113, 109. This time they don't have to play them without their two starting points guards.

1:26.4

Only Donovan Mitchell missing the game last night. So James Hardin

1:29.5

versus the Pistons.

1:31.4

What was your biggest takeaway from the game, man?

1:34.1

Man, it's the Pistons, really,

1:36.6

from the Princeton side of things.

1:38.4

Kate Cunningham was 4 of 16 in this game.

1:41.3

And he was 4 of 8 in the first half.

1:43.2

He ended up being four of 16.

1:44.9

I think when he isn't able to get things going offensively,

1:48.9

the offense struggles immensely for this Pistons team.

1:54.4

And it's part of what we talked about when it comes to the playoffs for them, right?

1:57.3

Like how are they able to counter a second option for Cade Cunningham and for the

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