Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 27th,

2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda coming up. The Charlotte Hornets are going crazy.

They've been scoring so many points. We're going to talk about that a little bit. The calves went nuts against the magic. And then we're going to talk to Josh Robbins about the Orlando Magic's latest loss and what they might do at the deadline. Good morning, everybody. What's up? Zena. How's it going? Going well, Dave. What up? We had a long day of hoops yesterday.

The winter weather in the south scared a bunch of teams in the league into starting the games early.

The Atlanta Hawks played a game before I finished breakfast out here in California.

So if you guys were watching hoops all day like us,

you might have seen the Charlotte Hornets go nuts.

They had a 50-point lead going into the fourth quarter

against our Sixers that we've been pretty high on.

No, Joelle Embed, only six points from Tyrese Maxie,

but 130 to 1, or excuse me,

130 to 93, the Hornets win big over the Sixers.

And I actually think it's just time again to talk about the Hornets.

They've been really good lately.

You know, Brandon Miller put up 30 in this game, but it's been a different guy almost every

single night for them.

We talked a lot this season about Concanipal.

Lamello Ball has kind of had an up and down year, but it does feel like he is a part of what they're

doing. They've landed on their best five-man lineup, and that's their new starting lineup.

And frankly, Zina, Musa Diabate has sort of been the secret to their success um he he moved

in the starting lineup and things have changed for them uh i'm going to look at the last 15 games

their first in offense fifth in defense first in net rating and their best five-man lineup has

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