Cavs and Rockets Contenders? | All Weekend Team
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Donovan Mitchell leads the Cavs past the Celtics and Fred VanVleet leads the Rockets past the Thunder in a wild Sunday night of NBA basketball. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni are your guides for all the NBA action from the weekend, including these 2 games. The breakfast club then discuss the best players from the weekend and form their All Weekend Teams. Finally the crew discuss their picks for the week and give an update on the NBA Cup.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 2nd, 2024. |
| 0:11.2 | Coming up, the Cavs strike back. |
| 0:13.4 | The Rocket silence the thunder. |
| 0:15.0 | And we're going to hit our best of the weekend with our all weekend team. |
| 0:18.5 | And, you know, it's another NBA Cup week. |
| 0:20.2 | So we're going to talk some NBA Cup as S. Hardy interrupts me with the timeout. |
| 0:34.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:36.0 | Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:37.2 | Good morning, S. Doing his best Will Hardy impersonation there. Yeah. Guys, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Good morning, S, doing his best Will Hardy impersonation there. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah. Guys, great weekend of hoops. Sunday was amazing, had me glued, you know, to the TV all day long. |
| 0:48.0 | Just so happens that we've just hit the quarterway mark of the regular season. And we got marquee matchups on this Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:56.9 | We got the number one team and the number two team in both conferences facing off against |
| 1:02.2 | each other. |
| 1:02.8 | We had the Cavs and Celtics rematch, which, you know, the Cavs, they lose their first game |
| 1:07.0 | last week to the Celtics. |
| 1:08.2 | They knocked them off, ending that undefeated streak to start |
| 1:10.8 | the season. Guys, this game was electric. No Jalen Brown, no Derek White. We thought we were going to |
| 1:18.1 | get a dud. And S, thanks to Donovan Mitchell, we got one of the best fourth quarters that I think we've |
| 1:23.5 | seen all year, 20 points from him in that comeback fourth quarter that they had. |
| 1:32.0 | But this game, again, Cavs Celtics is much to see TV. |
| 1:35.1 | It's, I need it in the playoffs. |
| 1:37.0 | I won it as a playoff series. |
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