Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 29th, 2025.

I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi and Zena Keda.

Coming up, the Spurs own the thunder.

Man, the thunder, falling like a rock.

And we got an MVP race update.

And after the break, guys, we're going to talk about some happenings around the

league and whether they're real or not.

Good morning, everybody.

What's up, guys?

Hello.

What up?

Been a minute.

Hope you had a great little Christmas break. It'll be another short week for us this week. We're going to take New Year's off. I was offered a tofu turkey, Dave. I feel like that'd be something you'd be interested in. Oh, wow. Hey, Tofurki is good. I had that at Thanksgiving. It's surprisingly good with a mushroom gravy. I agree. Fantastic. Wow. Yeah. No, let's move on, everyone. Yeah, okay. Hey, guys, we talk all the time about narratives, right? Like, the NBA is a narrative league. It's one of the ways that you, that you kind of, we cover the sport that way, but also it's a good way to watch it the storylines they just shift daily it feels like and man what a world of difference in our

opinion of the oklahoma city thunder from two weeks ago when we were all in Vegas that first

lost to the spurs i mean we were all kind of shocked and guys, they're, they're six and four in their last 10.

It's, um, you know, a little bit of, I think the luster maybe has fallen off. Part of this is they

ran into the spurs team that is a bit of a thunder buzzsaw. They're now 0 and three against the

spurs after dropping the back-to-back games.

Yep.

With the last one being on Christmas, they lose that game to the wolves.

We talked about how the wolves just, they, they tend to do well in these sort of high

pressure games against teams like, okay, see?

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