Chris Paul Departure + Who are the Knicks trying to be?
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Thunder moving their record to 21-1 and Scottie Barnes leading the Raptors to another win. Then, James Edwards joins the show after a weird Knicks loss to talk about their identity, they defense, and Jalen Brown's growth. Law Murray joins the show with his reaction to the Clippers and Chris Paul parting ways.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni, James Edwards, and Law Murray
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi. |
| 0:13.3 | Coming up, ooh, the Thunder had a close one with the Warriors, but they moved to 21 and 1. |
| 0:18.6 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:19.6 | The Raptors get another big win. We're going to talk about that. The Raptors get another big win. |
| 0:21.1 | We're going to talk about Scotty Barnes. And we got James Edwards here to talk about the Knicks. |
| 0:25.6 | Weird loss to the Celtics. |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the NBA Daily. I'm Dave DeFour. I'm here with Law Murray. |
| 0:36.5 | And you might be wondering if you're |
| 0:38.6 | watching on YouTube, why my eyes are so red. It's because it's 1.30 in the morning, Pacific |
| 0:44.1 | time in California. Got a little bit of an emergency pod. I just happened to be awake and see the news, |
| 0:50.5 | and so did Law Murray, because he covers the Clippers. And apparently the Clippers and Chris Paul are parting ways. |
| 0:57.5 | Now, law, look, we don't have a lot of time here. |
| 1:00.6 | I just want to get to the regular show and let you get to bed because I know that there's |
| 1:04.1 | more to come on this. |
| 1:05.2 | But this is weird. |
| 1:07.3 | Chris Paul is a Hall of Famer. |
| 1:09.9 | He was a Clipper for a very long time. It seemed like this was like a |
| 1:12.4 | retirement tour year for him. |
| 1:15.3 | But with the clippers |
| 1:16.4 | like nothing can be normal, apparently. |
| 1:20.2 | I knew something was off when I was in |
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