Gritty Warriors win play-in + Orlando moves on
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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Summary
Jimmy Butler and Stephen Curry combined for 71 points as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Memphis Grizzlies to clinch the seventh seed in the Western Conference. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Grizzlies gritty loss, Desmond Bane’s incredible game, and the Magic defeating the Hawks. Then, the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson joins the show from Chase Center to discuss Playoff Jimmy Butler, the Warriors game plan, and the looming Houston Rockets.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Marcus Thompson
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:08.9 | Coming up, the Warriors beat the Grizzlies. |
| 0:10.7 | We got Marcus Thompson to talk about it. |
| 0:12.5 | And we're going to go a little bit deep on Orlando and Atlanta. |
| 0:20.7 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:23.8 | Good morning, S. |
| 0:25.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:27.4 | Play in action last night. |
| 0:30.0 | We're so back. |
| 0:31.3 | You know, I'm not going to say we got two good games. |
| 0:34.5 | We did get one really good game. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.4 | Memphis and Golden State, the Warriors get the big win. We went deep on the warrior side with |
| 0:43.1 | Marcus, so stick around for that after the break. Yes, the Grizzlies are not done, even though |
| 0:49.7 | they did get beat by the Warriors. They've got to go on to play another game Friday night. |
| 0:54.9 | We don't know who the opponent is going to be yet, but either Dallas or Sacramento, |
| 0:59.6 | what do you think about the Grizzlies? |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, you know, they come back from down 20 and they have that really great run. |
| 1:06.8 | John Morant goes out with an ankle sprain, comes back, and actually has kind of a heroic run there. |
| 1:14.0 | Give me your impressions of how the Grizzlies played. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, this was a gritty, gritty loss for the Grizzlies. |
| 1:21.4 | You know, we talk about grit and grind. |
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