Changes for the Knicks?
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Knicks embarrassing loss to the Mavericks and the All Star starter announcements. Then, Hunter Patterson joins the show to discuss the Pistons win over the Celtics, the big game vibes, and Detroit as the best team in the East.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Hunter Patterson
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 20th, |
| 0:13.5 | 2020, coming up. |
| 0:15.3 | Jimmy Butler got hurt. |
| 0:16.4 | We're going to talk about what it means for the Warriors. |
| 0:18.6 | The Knicks got booed. |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to talk about some potential cat trades. And we got Hunter Patterson after the Detroit Pistons beat the Celtics. |
| 0:32.3 | Good morning, everybody. Hey, Zena, how's it going out there in the bay? |
| 0:36.8 | It's going well, you know, but that's only if you speak to me who was not at the game. |
| 0:42.4 | It's going well for you. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:44.9 | Not so great for the Warriors. |
| 0:47.3 | In spite of a nice win over the Miami Heat and some better play recently, We're only going to talk about Jimmy Butler. |
| 0:56.0 | Jimmy Butler left last night's game against the Miami Heat midway through the third |
| 1:01.2 | quarter when he landed awkwardly on one leg and his knee kind of buckled beneath him. |
| 1:07.5 | He had to be helped off the court by a couple of guys did not look good, did not |
| 1:12.0 | sound good on the audio. Zena, this team needs Jimmy Butler in order to win. I mean, he is, |
| 1:19.5 | he is the number two guy on this team. Yep. It's not going to be good if he has to miss any |
| 1:25.6 | time whatsoever. If he has to miss the rest of the season or something like that, their season's done. |
| 1:30.8 | Right. |
| 1:31.1 | But what are they going to do without Jimmy Butler? |
| 1:33.5 | Let's just think short term for now because, again, we don't know anything about it yet. |
| 1:38.1 | There's been no reporting and no medical tests done as of the time of this recording. |
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