Durant & Beal return to crush Lakers | What is wrong with the Timberwolves?
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
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Summary
Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal return from injury to blowout the Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Cup group play. The Milwaukee Bucks continue their steady stretch, in spite of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence, with a win over the Miami Heat. The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski joins Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Timberwolves loss to the Houston Rockets and the bad vibes in Minnesota. Then, the gang discusses a potential pivot for the Pelicans and action movies.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Jon Krawczynski
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 27, 2024 coming up. |
| 0:11.1 | Kevin Duran is back. |
| 0:12.3 | Looks pretty good. |
| 0:12.9 | The sun's missed him big time. |
| 0:14.5 | We got a tale of the Twin Cities. |
| 0:16.7 | And last night, it was the worst of times. |
| 0:19.1 | So we got John Krasinski in here. |
| 0:21.3 | And Zina and I are going to talk about whether or not the Pelicans should blow it up. |
| 0:25.1 | Yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes. |
| 0:26.5 | They need to just tank. |
| 0:33.7 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.2 | Good morning, Zina. |
| 0:37.3 | It was good to see Kevin Durant last night. Zina, how about that? |
| 0:40.5 | Absolutely. He looked so good. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, both us and the sons, right? We love to see them. |
| 0:46.7 | You know, like we were just, woo. You know, no Janus for the buck, so I was worried we were |
| 0:51.5 | going to have a dud of a night but kd back for the sons |
| 0:54.7 | and zina immediately everything falls into place him and bradley beale back on the court they've got |
| 0:59.9 | their full starting unit out there for only like the fourth time all year yeah and what do you know |
| 1:05.1 | they blow out the lakers 127 to 100 the the three guys you know booker plays most minutes. He plays 34 minutes. I think only 27 for Beal, 30 for KD. So just a nice easy night for everybody, which is kind of what we want for the sons, right? Like this is a team that's built for the playoffs. They should be crushing teams like the Lakers that can't really score. That's exactly what you want is your big three being able to come in, |
| 1:29.7 | handle business, and then sit down in the fourth quarter and allow the young guys to cook. |
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