Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for February 3rd,

2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. Coming up, we're going to talk some Janus trades

and who says no to some of the purported deals. And our buddy Brian Geisinger is here to talk about the Hornets,

win over the Pelicans, their latest winning streak,

and whether or not this team is going to make the playoffs next year.

Good morning, everybody.

What's up, S? How's it going?

Good morning. Yeah, man.

Look, we are in the honest watch. That's up? S, how's it going? Good morning. Yeah, man. Look, we are in Janus Watch.

That's it. Everybody is just locked in on this Janus thing until Thursday where he will get traded while we are in Chicago.

That's right. We're speaking it into existence.

Speaking it into existence.

The trade-a-thon, the NBA daily live stream, catch us on YouTube.

Of course, we'll put out a recap episode. We got John Hollinger for that. Yep. And yeah,

yes, we're all on Janus Watch. It feels like the league is a little bit on pause, right? Like

Keon Ellis trade happens, which that's what we're calling it. The key on

Ellis trade happens. But this is like, that's a small domino. And a lot of that was bookkeeping for

Cleveland. Like we talked about this on the show yesterday. But the Janus move, it's whether or not

you're keeping your powder dry for the summer for some teams. You know, I think about the warriors

with this, right? If the bucks aren't moving Janus at the deadline, what's their backup plan? Mm-hmm. And look, from the Bucs perspective, yeah, I agree with you. But from the Bucs perspective, this is like, we don't have to trade them right now. Right. You can wait until the summer. And so from Milwaukee's perspective, you want to get everything you're asking for.

If you don't get what you're asking for, if there's a team out there that is short selling

or short changing their offer, they're not going to get Janus at this point.

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