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Cavs more dominant than Thunder? + Playoff Jimmy saves Warriors

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Butler returned from injury to lead the Warriors to a game 4 victory and a 3-1 series lead over the Rockets. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are joined by the Athletic’s Anthony Slater to discuss the Warriors win, Jimmy Butler’s game, and the aftermath. Then, Es and Dave take a look at the first round sweeps for the Thunder and Cavs to decide who has been most dominant and look ahead to Clippers and Nuggets game 5.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni & Anthony Slater

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, who big game last night.

0:12.0

Jimmy Butler showed up, big time playoff.

0:14.3

Jimmy wins the game.

0:15.4

Anthony Slater's here to talk about it.

0:17.4

S&I break down the Cav and Thunder sweeps to see who was more dominant in the first round.

0:30.5

Good morning, everybody. Good morning, fellas. Anthony Slater hanging out late after the Warriors pick up a big win in game four to go up

0:40.3

three one. Anthony, I think we saw playoff Jimmy between the clutch free throws and the clutch

0:48.1

rebound. They were probably glad to have them out there last night. Yeah, it was a great day to be

0:54.0

Jimmy Butler for not only obviously obviously, they won the game,

0:57.1

and he had a flying rebound, 27 points, 12 free throws, but in front of me right now,

1:01.3

I'm seeing a replay of the heat game, and currently the Cavaliers are up 38 to 12.

1:06.2

And I'm not going to call Jimmy Butler a petty individual, you know, but I have an inkling that he may

1:14.2

have enjoyed both NBA playoff games tonight, if you know what I mean. But yeah, 4012,

1:21.3

the Cavaliers, by the way, at this point in this replay. But yeah, I mean, Jimmy Butler,

1:25.9

to me, like he said, I talked to him just a little bit at his locker post game. He talked about how painful the injury was. Steve Kerr saying he probably would have missed one to two weeks. Jimmy kind of confirmed that, like, if it was a regular season. And he kind of tried to play game three, but admitted that, like, it was a good decision and he would have basically been waddling on the court if they had allowed him to play game three, but admitted that, like, it was, it was a good decision. And he would have, like, basically been waddling on the court if they had allowed him to play game three. And tonight he mentioned, he's like, look at me running in the first three quarters. He said, remember when he had the chase down hard foul on Dylan Brooks? He was like, go rewatch that play. I'm scooting up the court. because he said not only did he fall hard on the you know kind of ass i guess we could say that on this podcast

1:45.8

but um yeah scooting up the court. Because he said, not only did he fall hard on the, you know,

2:01.0

kind of his ass,

2:01.8

I guess,

2:02.1

but it's going to say that on this podcast,

2:03.4

but his, like, hip kind of, like tailbone area kind of came up. And it's made it really hard for him to, like, lift his left leg as he's running. I guess he loosened up in the fourth. he was really good in the fourth.

1:59.0

The five free throws that clinched the game, right?

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