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Giannis headlines All Weekend Team + Embiid & Zion Update

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Giannis Antetokounmpo headlines our “All Weekend Team” that Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni outline as the first block of the show. In part 2, the breakfast club hits the news discussing Zion and Embiid not returning, Fred Van Vleet’s tirade, and more. Then the crew wraps up the show telling you which NBA Cup games matter the most this week, as they make their weekly picks.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni

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 25th, 2024.

0:11.2

Coming up, we take a look at the best of the weekend.

0:13.9

We pass the panic baton over to the Pacers, and we take a look at the upcoming week in NBA Cup action because it's heating up.

0:34.7

Good morning, everybody.

0:35.9

Good morning, S.

0:36.9

Good morning, Zena.

0:38.7

Huge weekend in NBA. It feels like, again, every single night. Something's happening.

0:43.9

We had the big NBA Cup games on Friday night. We're going to get to that later on in the show.

0:48.8

The Warriors have moved on to the elimination round. They're the first team to do so.

0:52.9

The Raptor's already been eliminated. Is that right, us? They have moved on to a round themselves. Yeah, yeah. Yes. So anyway, well, you know, the weekends, guys, there's so many games, you know, one of the easy ways to catch up. We're going to make our all weekend team, which is basically just the best of the weekend, the folks that stood out.

1:11.7

And I think that we got to start with the Bucks because we've been worried about the Bucks

1:15.8

since basically the season started even before.

1:18.3

If you're me, we've been calling them old.

1:20.5

And the one guy that we said was kind of not old and actually doing his job, Janice, he took

1:26.8

it up to notch over the weekend. And the Bucks have now won four in a row. Like, we're no longer as worried. I still think that there's glaring issues with this team. But there have been some positive signs, guys. And S, look, they get the big NBA Cup win the other night. You know, they knock down the Pacers and literally throw the panic baton right to him.

1:45.7

So, I mean, to Bucks, Janice had a great weekend.

1:48.4

Yeah, of course he did.

1:49.5

And Janus has been having a great season.

1:51.3

I think a lot of the Bucks worries and woes and concerns were everything outside of

1:58.5

Janus Antenacumpo.

2:00.2

And so now that he is performing and the team around him is performing better,

2:04.2

you're seeing them take care of their competition.

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