Derik Queen's historic night + Timberwolves lose focus
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Franz Wagner injury news and Derik Queen's big night against the Spurs. Then, Jon Krawczynski joins the show to discuss the Timberwolves loss to the Suns, Anthony Edwards takeover ability, and Minnesota's place in the Western Conference.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Jon Krawczynski
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 9th, 2025. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Dave Diffour here with Zena Keda coming up. |
| 0:14.1 | Franz Wagner, injury news is not so bad. |
| 0:17.1 | We're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:18.3 | Derek Queen had a big night, but Stefan Castle was back and Spurs got the win. And John Krasinski's here to talk about the Wolves' latest loss |
| 0:25.2 | and what's going on with their season. Good morning, everybody. Hey, Zina, how about |
| 0:34.5 | what up, Dave? those spurs last night? |
| 0:37.6 | How about that game? |
| 0:38.9 | That was a fun game. |
| 0:40.5 | It was a fun game. |
| 0:41.3 | A lot of back and forth. |
| 0:42.8 | Didn't love the Pels being able to put up that many points on the spurs, but it was a good |
| 0:49.1 | entertaining game. |
| 0:49.8 | They are missing Victor Wimmy. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll get to that in a second. |
| 0:56.3 | Yesterday, I need to actually apologize, Nina, because on yesterday's show, I talked about the Orlando Magic being cursed, |
| 1:02.9 | and it was a very negative kind of mood around Franz Wagner's injury. It looked really bad, |
| 1:09.6 | and we didn't really have any news on it. So I just, you know, I was thinking the worst. Well, we got some good news, Zena. On Monday, we found out Franz Wagner only has a high ankle sprain, which I know that's a funny thing to say, like, hey, this is good news. But it does mean he's not going to miss significant amount of time. He's going to be out two to four weeks. |
| 1:28.7 | So, we dodged one there. |
| 1:30.7 | And Jalen Suggs, not on the injury report for the NBA Cup game tonight. |
| 1:36.0 | So so far, so good for the magic. |
| 1:38.9 | Absolutely. |
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