Can the Thunder solve the Wembanyama problem?
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Pistons and the Timberwolves are out of the NBA playoffs. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Law Murray examine their offseason needs and then preview both conference final matchups, including their takes on Jalen Brunson vs. Donovan Mitchell and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP level floor vs. the Spurs defense.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Law Murray
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 May 18th, 2026. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Kata and Law Murray coming up. |
| 0:08.0 | We go deep on both of the conference finals, and we talk about Detroit and Minnesota's upcoming off-season. |
| 0:20.5 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:22.1 | Hey, Zina. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.8 | LaMurie. |
| 0:25.4 | How are you, buddy? |
| 0:26.8 | I feel good. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a big week coming up here. |
| 0:30.0 | We've got the conference finals now. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah, we got the conference finals, |
| 0:32.8 | but also don't we have player tiers coming out this week, Law, Murray? |
| 0:42.6 | So, full rollout. am i'm excited but i'm also like i feel like i just put in my my my finals you know what i'm saying like these are my |
| 0:49.6 | finals like i was like i'll be looking at the news all season long i knew i had to do it this year |
| 0:53.7 | they gave me an extra month and so i need people to be It was like, I was looking at the news all season long. I knew I had to do it this year. |
| 0:55.4 | They gave me an extra month. |
| 0:59.0 | And so I need people to be about that. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.5 | Everybody go and check out Law's player tiers. |
| 1:03.9 | They're going to be coming out all week. |
| 1:09.4 | Obviously, in case you don't know, Law covers the clippers for us over at the athletic. |
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