Embiid cooks Celtics + Draft Lottery Reform
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to Joel Embiid's big game to save the Sixers season, the Spurs moving to the second round, and the NBA's draft lottery reform proposal. Then, Lauren Williams from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joins the show after the Knicks dominate the Hawks to grab a 3-2 series lead to discuss how Atlanta forces a game seven.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Lauren Williams
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 29th, 2026. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Dave DeFora here with Esperi. |
| 0:06.8 | Coming up, the Spurs are moving on. |
| 0:09.6 | The Celtics Blue, Blue a home game. |
| 0:13.3 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:14.6 | And Lauren Williams from the Atlanta Journal Constitution is here to talk about the Hawks getting blown out by the Knicks. |
| 0:27.6 | Good morning, everybody. What is up? |
| 0:28.3 | S. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello, hello, beautiful world. How is it going? |
| 0:34.2 | Are you an Apple computer now? |
| 0:36.7 | I'm trying to do something different, you know? |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, I like it. Okay, we'll throw you off your game. |
| 0:39.1 | We'll workshop that and come back. |
| 0:41.6 | Maybe with something with something else. |
| 0:43.3 | Maybe give us some recommendations, you know, YouTube comments. |
| 0:46.9 | Speaking of workshop, I should have workshopped my Joelle Embed take from the other night |
| 0:54.0 | because I said, listen, if the Sixers have any chance |
| 0:58.6 | of winning another game in this series, it's probably not going to be with Joelle and Bede, |
| 1:04.7 | Mia Coppa on that. |
| 1:06.3 | Joe L. Embed was awesome last night. |
| 1:08.9 | He put up a ridiculous stat line for a guy who's 19 days removed from an appendectomy. |
| 1:15.6 | 33 points, eight assists, four rebounds, which, you know, like, we wish those numbers were higher. |
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