Is Joel Embiid back?
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Is Joel Embiid back?
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Warriors loss, Jonathan Kuminga’s injury, and the Clippers win over the Lakers. Then, Tony Jones joins the show to discuss the Sixers win over the Rockets, Joel Embiid’s return to form, and what roster moves Philly needs to make before the trade deadline.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Tony Jones
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 23rd, 2026. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Dave Before here with Esperi. |
| 0:16.0 | Hennie coming up, the Warriors are in even bigger trouble. |
| 0:20.0 | After last night, we're going to talk about that a little |
| 0:22.1 | bit the clippers looking kind of hot and tony jones is here again to talk about joel mbeed and |
| 0:27.3 | we're going to wonder is he back good morning everybody what's up ass how's it going buddy |
| 0:35.6 | morn men uh, always good. |
| 0:39.2 | Great night in the NBA again. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | A little bit of a scare. |
| 0:42.6 | Let's be honest here. |
| 0:44.6 | Rivalry Week is kind of not that great, right? |
| 0:50.1 | It's a marketing thing. |
| 0:52.6 | Sure. |
| 0:53.4 | I mean, what do we have? We had the Oklahoma City Thunder versus the Milwaukee Bucks. Yep. The other night. The Charlotte Hornets versus the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah. Which is just for the Lamel. You know, we got Hornets magic. That is actually a rivalry, right? Yeah. You know, any of the newer expansion teams, yeah, you came in around the same time, |
| 1:13.5 | you know, only a few years apart. |
| 1:15.7 | I can't think of classic Hornets magic games. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:19.1 | Well, no, but it's funny because they played, they've probably played more inconsequential |
| 1:24.1 | games against each other than maybe two, any two other franchises in the league, right? |
| 1:29.1 | You know what it is? |
| 1:29.9 | They got to make divisions matter more. |
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