Grizzlies maul Wolves in comeback win | Celtics bounce back
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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Summary
Jaren Jackson scored 15 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Memphis Grizzlies over Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves for the second time in ten days. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Wolves lineup issues with Donte DiVincenzo out indefinitely, the Julius Randle problem, and the Pistons success in 2025. Then, the Athletic’s Jay King joins the show from the Bay Area to discuss the woeful Warriors, Boston’s status in the Eastern Conference, and what’s next for the Celtics.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Jay King
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 21st, 2025. |
| 0:11.6 | Coming up, the wolves lose another close game to the Grizzlies, and I think they need to make a change. |
| 0:17.2 | We've got Jay King live after the Boston Celtics play the Warriors on the road. |
| 0:22.0 | And we take a look at the Pistons who are looking great in 2025. |
| 0:34.4 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. |
| 0:37.6 | Morning. Ooh, nice little holiday weekend. Good morning, S. Morning. |
| 0:38.0 | Ooh, nice little holiday weekend. I'm feeling refreshed. Had all this extra time off. |
| 0:43.1 | We had a lot of really good basketball over the weekend, and that doesn't even include |
| 0:46.8 | the unrivaled stuff from Friday and Saturday. Did you have a chance to watch any of it? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, a little bit. To be honest with you, I spent some time off, you know, good, you know, enjoying myself. But yes, I saw the highlights. It looked cool. Very interestingly that they got starting up. So, hey, why not? Some off-season hoops for the love you? Why not? Yeah, it's fun. I mean, it's not like what we're used to when we think about basketball, but it is interesting. |
| 1:11.7 | It's fast pace. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll see if three on three full court is something that's going to stick around. |
| 1:16.7 | They'll probably tweak this a little bit. |
| 1:18.5 | But the first weekend, I thought, you know, it was cool. |
| 1:21.0 | And again, it was something new and different with basketball. |
| 1:23.9 | So not new and different. |
| 1:26.8 | The wolves lost again in a pretty similar way to |
| 1:30.0 | the Grizzlies for the second time in a week. 106, just another close game. And look, as right now, |
| 1:36.4 | I don't think there's any question that the wolves are not the team that we expected them to be |
| 1:41.2 | at this stage of the season. The Grizzlies are just a better basketball team right now. |
| 1:45.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah. |
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