Inside Jayson Tatum’s impending return to the Celtics
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Nuggets’ scare in Utah and Darius Garland’s return for the Clippers. Then, Jay King joins the show to discuss Jayson Tatum’s return, the Celtics season, and Joe Mazzulla’s coaching style.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Jay King
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 March 3rd, |
| 0:13.8 | 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Esparahenny. Coming up, the Nuggets got a scare. We're going to |
| 0:19.6 | talk about Yolkitch a little bit. Darius Garland's back. We're going to talk about Yokic a little bit. |
| 0:21.3 | Darius Garland's back. |
| 0:22.3 | We're going to talk about his debut for the Clippers. |
| 0:24.5 | And Jay King is here to talk about the Celtics, Jalen Brown, and Tatum's comeback. |
| 0:36.3 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:39.3 | What's up, Bass? How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:40.3 | Ah, living a dream, man. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, look, a weird night in basketball, undoubtedly. |
| 0:46.3 | Not a good one, I will say. |
| 0:48.3 | No. |
| 0:49.3 | And it's funny because we had some returns. |
| 0:51.3 | We had Janus Ante Cumpo come back for some reason. |
| 0:56.1 | I don't think he would have come back if he would have known that they were going to lose by |
| 1:02.2 | 27 points. |
| 1:05.6 | So the Celtics with no Jalen Brown. |
| 1:08.3 | I mean, yeah, Nimmias's Kada wasn't out there. |
| 1:11.3 | There's just no excuse for the bucks. But we talked about that game a little bit after the break with Jay King. Anyway, okay, we got to talk about the Nuggets, man. Look, they had a couple of, we'll say rough losses, but two good teams. Okay, they lose to OKC on Friday. they lose to the wolves on Sunday. |
| 1:28.8 | Then they have to the wolves on Sunday. |
| 1:28.8 | Then they have to go hop on a plane and go to Utah. |
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