Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 30th, 2025.

I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi.

Coming up, Nicole Yokic left with an injury.

We're going to talk about what that could mean for the Nuggets.

The cabs get a big win over the spurs.

And Joelle Lorenzi is here to talk about the Bulls and what they may be doing at the deadline.

Good morning, everybody.

Sad morning.

Yes.

No, not a good morning, actually.

It's a morning of purgatory.

Morning with a you.

Maybe.

We don't know yet.

Yeah.

Because as we're recording this, we don't know the status of Nicola Yokic's knee.

I think, S, when we watch so many games every single night, we see injuries pretty much every night.

I mean, there were four or five, six last night maybe.

But injuries to guys.

We see guys come back from injuries pretty quickly, right?

So if you send a text, you're like, hey, this guy got hurt, there's a chance he might be back by the time that guy responds to you, you know? A guy like Nicola Yokic going down, though, I mean, it feels, it just feels different. I mean, I think about Tatum, Halliburton last year, you know, and again, we don't know the severity of the injury yet. But at the end of the

second quarter, right before halftime, honestly, the last play of the first half, there was an

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