Is the All Star Game Back??
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Zena Keita and Es Baraheni are joined by Dave DuFour who is in LA for the All Star Game to discuss the new All Star format and how it was a success, and if it can be replicated. Then they discuss the 3 point contest, the slam dunk contest and how Saturday night can be improved. Then the crew close out the show discussion Adam Silver’s press conference about tanking and the state of the league.
Host: Zena Keita
With: Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Carl Finocchiaro
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the NBA Daily for Monday, February 16th. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Zena Keda, joined by Dave DeFour and Esperini. |
| 0:14.0 | We're closing out NBA All-Star weekend. |
| 0:17.0 | They did some things to chop it up, switch it up. We're going to break it all down. |
| 0:21.4 | Dave is on site. Let's get right to it. |
| 0:28.4 | Dave, S. What's up, guys? What up? What's up? S dancing to the music I've got in the |
| 0:35.1 | background. Hoping that this music doesn't get us booted off of the internet. |
| 0:39.2 | No, it'll be a fine. I'm just very musically inclined. I can hear the rhythm. It's all. |
| 0:44.5 | I love it. I love it. That's the Toronto and you. There was a guy, as we could have used you out here, I don't know anyone's names, one of the hosts of the weekend. |
| 0:53.6 | Hey, they did a great job like the arena hosts. |
| 0:55.6 | There's so much stuff happening. |
| 0:56.7 | Nice. |
| 0:56.9 | But man, one of them, guy, had no rhythm from the hips down. It just, do kids not dance with their legs anymore? Like, what is happening? No, there's several dances that are popularized that include leg usage. It's just probably the person that't come with TikTok instructions. That's what we're watching. |
| 1:12.7 | That's right. That's right. Okay. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, Dave, I'm actually happy that you brought that up. |
| 1:17.0 | Overall vibes of NBA All-Star Weekends. |
| 1:19.4 | We got to get into it because going into this weekend, |
| 1:23.0 | it just felt like everyone was ragging on how bad |
| 1:27.0 | the vibes were going into this weekend. No one's |
| 1:29.7 | getting excited for the games. Everyone's expecting the competition to be down, etc. What were the |
| 1:34.8 | overall vibes out in your city in LA? You know, I think that it starts with this. The All-Star |
| 1:40.8 | game is never what people try to pretend like it used to be. |
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