Harden’s Cavs Debut + Blatant Tanking
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Rockets close win over the Thunder, James Harden’s Cavs debut, and the egregious tanking happening in Utah. Then, the gang takes a look at the Hornets 9-game winning streak, the messiness of the Eastern Conference, and Minnesota’s struggles.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for February 9th, 2026. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Dave DeFore. |
| 0:13.9 | Here was Zena Keda coming up. |
| 0:16.0 | The Rockets barely beat the thunder without their two best players. |
| 0:18.9 | We're going to talk about that egregious tanking in Utah. We're going to talk about that. Egregious tanking in Utah. |
| 0:22.1 | We're going to hit that and what we're watching after the trade deadline. |
| 0:29.7 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:31.2 | What's up, Zena? |
| 0:32.2 | Good to see you. |
| 0:33.1 | Good to see you. |
| 0:34.3 | How have you done since the trade deadline? |
| 0:39.5 | You know, it took a little bit to recover after the seven hours of live streaming over on YouTube. Thanks to everybody who hung out. |
| 0:45.8 | Shout out to the Discord, by the way. They were, there were multiple people that were on the stream |
| 0:52.0 | all day long. It makes me question like, what do you guys do for work? |
| 0:57.1 | Seems like you got a good job out there. |
| 1:00.4 | You know, but really, really appreciate everybody hanging out. |
| 1:03.6 | I had a good time. |
| 1:04.5 | And then I got the chance to do the athletic show with Zena the following day. |
| 1:08.9 | So everybody can go and check that out. |
| 1:10.4 | The athletic show has its own YouTube channel. And everybody can go and check that out. The athletic show has |
| 1:11.6 | its own YouTube channel and you can see it on Amazon Fire. Zeno, there's a lot happening. This |
| 1:17.6 | has been, this has been kind of a crazy weekend. We got a lot of new faces and new places, |
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