Cavaliers clinch playoffs | Giannis gets 20k points
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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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Summary
Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to their 52nd win and a playoff berth. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the way the Cavs are maximizing De’Andre Hunter, Payton Pritchard’s 43 points off the bench for the Celtics, and Giannis joining the 20,000 point club. Then, the Athletic’s Fred Katz joins the show to discuss Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s MVP ascension, the science behind his development, and OKC’s chances at a title.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Fred Katz
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
Read Fred’s story on Shai here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6174500/2025/03/05/shai-gilgeous-alexander-sga-thunder-mvp-nba/
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| 0:41.2 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:44.7 | Coming up, the Cavs become the first team to clinch a playoff spot. |
| 0:46.3 | Peyton Pritchard did what? |
| 0:51.3 | And we got Fred Katz on to talk about his big feature on Shea Gildes-Alexander and the Thunder's Chance of the title. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. feature on Shea Gildes Alexander and the Thunder's Chance of the title. Good morning, everybody. |
| 1:04.2 | Good morning, S. |
| 1:06.0 | The Cleveland Cavaliers, man. |
| 1:09.1 | We are running out of ways to call them good. |
| 1:12.6 | They won their 12th straight game. |
| 1:14.7 | That's their third winning streak of the season of at least 12 games, which is pretty insane. |
| 1:21.5 | They're now 52 wins. |
| 1:23.4 | And on March 5th, they clinched a playoff berth. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | That's absurd. |
| 1:29.8 | That's, it's absolutely absurd. |
| 1:31.5 | The fact that they are like head and shoulders above the rest of the competition, it's just |
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