Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for March 12, 2026.

I'm Dave Dufour. Here's Zena Keda. Coming up, Kawhi Leonard has a huge night for the Clippers,

and Josh Robbins is here to talk about the

resurging Orlando Magic.

Good morning, everybody. What's up, Zina?

What up? I'm so jealous. You guys got an 83-point game out of BAM. And don't get me wrong, Kauai tried his best to get there. But it's just not the same vibes. Bryce Sinsibah. Look, I'm just going to say, he had 10 points in like the first four and a half minutes of that Utah game. We were like, hold up. And I was thinking, oh, man, that guy, he's a walking bucket as it is. It'd be amazing if he did it. But no, did not happen. Shout out to the Knicks for coming back because, man, if they lost Utah, ooh, buddy, we would have a lot to talk about. Well, let's talk about, look, the wolves, they lost back to back. This L.A LA double dip back to back has gotten a couple teams.

They got the Knicks the other night.

Now I've got the wolves.

They've lost back to back games here in the West and everything's super tight.

But the Clippers, look, they have been very good as of late.

They now, you know, they're a game above 500.

Kauai Leonard, 45 points is his fifth 40 plus point game this season.

Still got his 20 point game streak, you know, going.

This is some of the best basketball that Kauai Leonard has maybe ever played.

Yeah.

And that's not hyperbole.

Like, he looks fantastic right now.

And the Clippers have no real hope of getting out of the play end.

Like, I don't even think they can get to the seven seed.

But, man, I would not want to play the Clippers with Kauai Leonard looking like this in a must

win game.

Zina, are we going to see the Clippers, maybe make some noise?

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