Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Cleveland Cavaliers hot start continued with a blowout win over the struggling Golden State Warriors. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni breakdown the win for the Cavs, the Warriors problems, and Joel Embiid’s best game of the season. Then, the Athletic’s Sam Amick joins the show to give some behind the scenes insight on Mike Brown’s firing in Sacramento, a potential De’Aaron Fox trade, and the latest on Jimmy Butler. Then, Es digs into the numbers to celebrate LeBron James’ birthday.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni, Sam Amick
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:30.6 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 31st, 2024. |
| 0:43.7 | Coming up, the Cleveland Cavaliers keep on rolling and the Warriors are struggling. |
| 0:47.9 | We get Sam Amick on the show to talk about Mike Brown and the Sacramento Kangs. |
| 0:53.2 | And then S has some wild stats about LeBron to celebrate his birthday. |
| 1:07.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 1:08.4 | Good morning, yes. |
| 1:09.5 | We had ourselves a Monday night in the NBA last night. |
| 1:13.3 | We had blowouts. We had some marquee matchups that just didn't pan out. You know, typical Monday. |
| 1:18.6 | Case of the Monday. It's all good. Yeah, we're back. This is our last show of the year, S. |
| 1:23.2 | Yes. Congratulations on both of us, not getting fired before the calendar switches to January. |
| 1:29.1 | So I'll take that as a win. |
| 1:31.0 | No show tomorrow, folks. |
| 1:32.3 | Just get that over with, let you guys know. |
| 1:34.3 | No show tomorrow. |
| 1:35.0 | We're going to have the night off, hopefully spending dinner with our families and not going |
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