How to fix the Knicks + NBA Finals preview
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
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Summary
Pascal Siakam was named Eastern Conference finals MVP as the Indiana Pacers defeated New York Knicks to clinch a trip to the NBA Finals. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni react to the Pacers’ win and give their thoughts on what went wrong for the Knicks. Then, the gang looks ahead to the NBA Finals matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Pacers and make their picks.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 2nd, 2025. I'm Dave DeFore |
| 0:11.5 | here with Esparaheni and Zena Keda. Coming up, the Pacers are going to the finals. We're going to |
| 0:16.5 | react to their game six win and fallout from Pascal Seacom's conference finals MVP that he did not know existed. |
| 0:24.4 | And we're going to look ahead to game one between the Thunder and Pacers. |
| 0:34.3 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, guys. We have made it to the finals, the Pacers, and the Thunder. |
| 0:42.4 | It's the final series that we all predicted, guys. |
| 0:46.8 | I mean, we were kind of close, you know? |
| 0:49.8 | We were close. |
| 0:50.3 | We got one side of it pretty much. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, we got one side. |
| 0:52.2 | Sure. |
| 0:52.7 | Okay. |
| 0:53.2 | Well, I'm just meant at the beginning of the year, we all saw the Pacers making the finals. |
| 0:58.4 | Great run, right? |
| 0:59.8 | For the Pacers, they beat the Knicks in six, which all three of us predicted. |
| 1:05.7 | A little bit of dumb luck there, by the way, because that Tyrese Halliburton bounce shot |
| 1:10.6 | in game one really |
| 1:12.0 | sealed the deal for us, right? |
| 1:14.6 | What do you guys feel about game six? |
| 1:16.8 | You know, a little bit of a dud for the Knicks, you know, not quite the heroics that we |
| 1:23.3 | saw in game five, but, you know, you guys, what do do you think i thought that the nix did a great job |
| 1:31.0 | of finally trying something different at the end of this series the last two games you saw |
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