Is Cade Cunningham the MVP?
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Clippers win over the Nuggets and Kevin Durant’s burning performance against the Hornets. Then, James Edwards joins the show after the Knicks’ disheartening loss to the Pistons to discuss the problem with Karl-Anthony Towns in the offense, New York’s defensive problems, and Cade Cunningham’s MVP case.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and James Edwards
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Carl Finocchiaro
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for February 20th, |
| 0:09.0 | 2026, presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up, the Clippers steal one from the Nuggets. |
| 0:17.0 | Kevin Durant had a big night in Charlotte, and James Edwards is here to talk some smack about the Knicks. |
| 0:27.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:29.8 | What's up? |
| 0:30.8 | James in trouble. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm not going to get James in any more trouble than he gets himself. |
| 0:35.4 | And actually, look, the Knicks, we need to talk some smack about the Nix. |
| 0:38.6 | And we do in the second segment of the show, guys. |
| 0:41.7 | But first, let's talk some smack about the Nuggets, man. |
| 0:46.1 | The Clippers trade away James Hardin and Avitsa Zubach. |
| 0:50.6 | We all feel like, all right, they're not going to be any good anymore. |
| 0:55.4 | And then they steal a game from the Nuggets at Into a Dome, right? Fresh off the All-Star break. You know, |
| 1:02.2 | you'd think that the Nuggets would be fresh. They were not ready. And once again, it's Jamal |
| 1:07.8 | Murray at the free throw line with a chance to tie the game and he misses what |
| 1:14.4 | would have been the game tying free throw with 0.9 seconds left. The Clippers win 1 15, 114 and S, |
| 1:23.3 | this was just, you called it. We were watching the end of this one together. |
| 1:28.5 | And you called, you said, what if he, what if he misses again? |
| 1:32.7 | I gave the broadcaster jinks. |
| 1:35.8 | That's right. |
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