Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 29th, 2026.

I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda coming up.

The Spurs pick up a big win in the West.

We talked to Dan Wojke about LeBron, and we were wondering, is this his last

season? Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. How's it going? Always wonderful after you

see a great night of basketball. Yeah, it wasn't bad.

I mean, listen, it's the schedule is kind of up and down right now.

There's bad weather stuff affecting everything.

But, you know, we get a big Knicks Raptors game.

We're going to talk to S in a minute because he was there for that game.

But first, before we get to that, Houston, San Antonio, big Western Conference matchup,

and I have been doubting the Rockets.

I spent the first two and a half quarters of this game being ready to eat crow on the show.

And, you know, look, we found out yesterday the Stephen Adams had season-ending surgery on that left ankle that he injured.

And this has been one of my big concerns about them.

And every single one of my concerns about the Houston Rockets came to fruition the last 18 minutes of the basketball game.

The Spurs win 11-19 to 99 and largely, Zena, because the rockets don't generate

enough threes. Their offense doesn't have enough rhythm, really, when you're able to sag off

amend Thompson, the way that the spurs were able to and just dare him to shoot. That worked. And without

Stephen Adams, they weren't owning the offensive glass so they

weren't getting those second chance points it was a rough night for for the rockets and they started

out so well they really did and the spurs were able to recuperate in the second half which is huge

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