Cavs shut down Knicks + Cason Wallace
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Es Baraheni is joined by Andrew Schlecht to discuss the Thunder’s win over the Raptors and Cason Wallace’s big night. Then they discuss the debuts of Coby White and Jonathan Kuminga plus the return of Dejounte Murray. Then after the break, James Edwards of the Athletic joins to discuss the Knicks loss to the Cavs and how the Knicks can solve their issues before the playoffs.
Host: Es Baraheni
With: Andrew Schlecht and James Edwards
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Lara Sinclair
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:13.7 | It is Wednesday, February 25th. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm S. Barahini, joined alongside Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:20.0 | Coming up, the Knicks got smacked by the new look |
| 0:22.5 | Cavs. James Edwards is here to break it down. Two trade deadline acquisitions made their debut, |
| 0:28.5 | and an undermanned OKC team beat the Raptors. Let's get into it. |
| 0:43.9 | All right, good morning, everybody. Good morning, Andrew. How's it going, man? It's going great. It's great to be here with you. Oh, man, it is a blast to be here with you. And it's how ironic that it would be on a day |
| 0:51.4 | where, you know, obviously the Oklahoma City Thunder head to Toronto to play the Toronto Raptors. |
| 0:57.7 | It's true. |
| 0:58.1 | It felt like it would be poetic for us to be on this show together. |
| 1:02.2 | What a game also. |
| 1:04.1 | Very, very cool game because I thought obviously no SGA, no A.J. Mitchell, no J.L. |
| 1:09.8 | Williams for the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was Canada |
| 1:12.7 | basketball night, by the way, and SGA was not in the building. So it was kind of like they were |
| 1:18.7 | throwing a party for someone who wasn't there, you know, but that's besides the point. A party for |
| 1:24.1 | Lou Dort. Come on. Yeah, yeah, that's true. And for R.J. Barrett, who was in the building as well. |
| 1:29.5 | It was a festive, festive thing with some subway t-shirts as you so eloquently saw. |
| 1:36.1 | Those are cool. Those are cool shirts. |
| 1:37.2 | They were, yeah, they were nice shirts. |
| 1:38.7 | I actually know the designer. |
| 1:40.6 | Shout out to the designer of the subway shirts. |
| 1:42.6 | Anyways, look, this was a game that I think we have to talk about Case and Wallace. |
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