Can the Celtics come back and beat the Knicks?
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Mikal Bridges makes a game saving steal for the second game in row to help the Knicks take a 2-0 series lead over the Boston Celtics. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni breakdown the Knicks defensive effort, the Thunder beatdown of the Nuggets, and discuss Steph Curry’s hamstring injury. Then, Jared Weiss joins the show after being evacuated from TD Garden following the brutal loss for the Celtics to discuss another 20-point lead disappearing and whether the Celtics stand a chance at winning the series.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Eś Baraheni and Jared Weiss
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:08.8 | Coming up, the thunder showed up for game two. |
| 0:12.0 | The Denver Nuggets did not. |
| 0:13.9 | And the Knicks with another huge comeback, |
| 0:16.0 | we have Jared Weiss to talk about that from outside of TD Garden |
| 0:19.0 | where there was an evacuation. |
| 0:28.8 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. |
| 0:38.5 | Good morning to everyone in the tri-state area, New York, specifically. What an insane, another insane night. |
| 0:39.0 | What do you know? The second round has been incredibly unpredictable. |
| 0:44.0 | The Knicks pull off another 20-point comeback against the Celtics. |
| 0:50.2 | I want to call it a comeback and not a Celtics-blown lead. |
| 0:54.3 | It is both, right? |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | But the Knicks have once again manufactured a huge comeback. |
| 1:02.0 | You know, we hit the Celtic side of this after the break with Jared Weiss. |
| 1:05.8 | But before we get to the Thunder just dominating the nuggets, I wanted to talk about the |
| 1:11.0 | next side of this because look, they're now up two games and none in a series that I don't |
| 1:15.9 | think most people pick them to win. |
| 1:19.6 | You know, I mean, they haven't, they didn't beat anyone all year. |
| 1:22.4 | And by anyone, I mean, OKC, Cleveland and Boston, didn't beat them all year. |
| 1:26.8 | And now, now they're up to two to nothing |
| 1:29.6 | have come back from two 20 point victories and they've done it because of the defense it |
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