Can the Warriors beat the Wolves?
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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Summary
Buddy Hield poured in 33 points and made 9 threes to lead the Golden State Warriors to a game 7 series clinching win over the Houston Rockets. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Pacers win over the Cavaliers, Andrew Nembhard as a playoff riser, and how the Nuggets stack up against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Then, Zena Keita joins the show to talk about Buddy Hield’s big night and how the Warriors stack up against the Timberwolves.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.2 | Coming up, welcome to the second round, but also we had some game sevens over the weekend. |
| 0:13.8 | Warriors get a big win. |
| 0:15.4 | We look ahead to OKC and the Nuggets and take a look at how the Pacers beat the Cavs. |
| 0:26.4 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. We are in the second round. |
| 0:31.3 | Ooh, I am excited, man. What a great time for playoff basketball. My goodness. Yeah, we managed to get a couple of game sevens. |
| 0:40.0 | I would say the two most compelling series. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey, |
| 0:42.4 | wound up going seven. |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.5 | Nuggets get the big win over the clippers. |
| 0:47.1 | James Hardin, man. |
| 0:49.4 | Tough. |
| 0:49.8 | Just perfect hardened performance or lack thereof. |
| 0:53.3 | Bad weekend for Rockets fans in general you know |
| 0:55.9 | between the james hard and dud and this game the game seven that we're going to talk to yeah but |
| 1:01.0 | yeah well we're going to have zina after the break because uh you know she was in studio for warriors |
| 1:05.3 | rocket so we're going to go deep on that with her um but man uh before we go there early early game on Sunday was game one of round two between |
| 1:15.5 | the calves and the Pacers. And look, if you've been listening to this show all year, you know, |
| 1:21.2 | like we were high on the calves. I mean, they had multiple double digit win streaks. I mean, |
| 1:25.0 | this was the best team in the East. But they had a few flaws. |
| 1:28.7 | And I, like you, S, I felt like the Pacers kind of matched up very well. They're big. They're athletic. They can score. And in game one, look, they pick up the win, 121, 112. And it was kind of all the things that we talked about. Now, a little bit of this, the Cavaliers didn't have Darius Garland, and it showed especially early on. |
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