Have the Wolves solved the Thunder? + Giannis trade ideas
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react the Wolves win over the Thunder and 40+ point games from Cooper Flagg, Tyrese Maxey, and Dillon Brooks. Then, Eric Nehm joins the show to discuss the Giannis trade request saga, Eric’s time covering the Bucks, and possible trade partners.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Eric Nehm
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 30th, 2026. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Heady coming up a crazy night in the NBA. |
| 0:20.5 | The wolves pick up a big win over to the Thunder. We're going to hit that. And then we go super deep with Eric Name on Janus, his time covering Janus in Milwaukee and potential trade destinations. Good morning, everybody. What's up? S. How's it going? Man, I'm doing well. Look, I know we, we love to do a little bit |
| 0:40.3 | of small talk. We don't got time for that right now, though. We have no time because we legitimately |
| 0:44.6 | have 27 minutes of Eric name on the other side of the break, because I love Eric so much. Yeah. |
| 0:50.7 | And we just went really hard on just his time covering. Yeah. |
| 0:54.4 | And it's time to talk. |
| 0:55.2 | Yonis. I mean, this might be the last time that he and I get to talk about potentially Yonis leaving the buck. How many times have you said this might be the last time? Honestly, we've done this for eight years now together here at the athletic. It's kind of amazing. A little bit bittersweet. but it was fun. |
| 1:10.7 | So I hope you guys enjoy that after the break. |
| 1:12.3 | But ludicrous display. athletic. It's kind of amazing. A little bit bittersweet, but it was fun. So I hope you guys enjoy that after the break. |
| 1:12.3 | But ludicrous display by the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, Luke. |
| 1:19.3 | In the big win over the thunder. |
| 1:21.7 | Look, it feels like the wolves kind of own this matchup right now. |
| 1:26.4 | 123, 111, they get to win. |
| 1:28.9 | The score doesn't actually indicate |
| 1:30.7 | how far apart this game felt. |
| 1:34.0 | The wolves just dominated from the start. |
| 1:36.3 | They felt more physical. |
| 1:37.5 | They felt more engaged. |
| 1:39.3 | I mean, it's rare that you watch a Thunder game |
| 1:41.8 | and you feel like, wow, is everyone healthy? |
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