How far can the Pistons go?
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to Evan Mobley’s calf injury and the Clippers successful run. Then, Hunter Patterson joins the show to discuss the Pistons win in Denver, their math problem from deep, and who they are eyeing in the trade market.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Hunter Patterson
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 28th, 2026. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Dave Dufour here with S. Berra Henning coming up. |
| 0:17.1 | Evan Moble is going to miss some time. |
| 0:18.6 | We're going to talk about the Cavs, options without them. |
| 0:20.6 | And the Pistons picked up a big win over the Nuggets, so we got Hunter Patterson on to talk about it. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:32.0 | What's up, Bess? |
| 0:32.9 | How's it going, buddy? |
| 0:33.8 | Morning, sir. |
| 0:34.6 | How's it going? |
| 0:35.6 | You know, not too bad. |
| 0:37.1 | I was listening to the Pablo Tori Fines Out podcast right before the show. |
| 0:43.3 | Very interesting topic. |
| 0:44.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:45.2 | Did you happen to catch it? |
| 0:46.4 | I've definitely listened in. |
| 0:48.5 | And yeah, very interesting topic. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.8 | We're not going to talk about it here because we don't have the legal budget of that show, |
| 0:55.4 | but go and check out Pablo Tori finds out. |
| 0:58.3 | It is a fascinating NBA owner-related episode. |
| 1:03.8 | And no, it's not Steve Balmer, and no, we have not forgotten about the aspiration |
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