Jokić and Curry make history + Ja Morant on the move?
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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Nikola Jokić recorded the first ever 61 point triple double in a double overtime loss to Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni and Anthony Slater react to the Jokić’s night, Steph Curry’s 52 point night, and the playoff implications for the Timberwolves, Grizzlies, and Warriors. Then, the Athletic’s Sam Amick stops by to discuss the ongoing saga in Memphis, new Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo, and Ja Morant’s future.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Anthony Slater
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.1 | Coming up, Nicole Yokic had a 61 point triple double, and we're going to try to wrap our heads around it. |
| 0:14.8 | And Steph Curry, he also went off. |
| 0:16.9 | Anthony Slater's here to talk about the night, and we sat down with Sam Amick to catch up on the latest with the Grizzlies and John Morant and wonder whether he's going to be moving on this summer. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, guys. Thanks for staying up, Anthony, and hanging out with us. We originally thought we were going to be talking about Steph Curry right off the top, |
| 0:40.6 | but Nicola Yokic kind of bumped him from the front page here. |
| 0:45.3 | A 61 point triple double in a loss, actually. |
| 0:51.3 | Crazy game. |
| 0:53.3 | Anthony, you were, you're actually in Memphis, you were there for the Warriors, |
| 0:57.7 | the Warriors Grizzlies game, but you caught the, you know, the last quarter, last, |
| 1:02.0 | the double overtime of this game. |
| 1:04.4 | When the game kind of got absurd, what do you think, man? |
| 1:09.1 | I mean, this is to me, the game of the year um and you maybe didn't see |
| 1:13.4 | the whole thing i did but uh how did you feel about the finish to this game yeah it was great a lot |
| 1:18.8 | lot of shot making big threes erin gordon was in big threes alexander walker obviously |
| 1:23.4 | returning uh and then you know the westbro thing's going to be like the headline probably tomorrow |
| 1:28.3 | because they had it won. |
| 1:30.4 | You know, he could have, I guess, dribbled it out with 10 seconds left. |
| 1:33.6 | Then they probably foul him with eight. |
| 1:36.0 | I actually don't mind taking the layup. |
| 1:37.6 | How do you miss the layup? |
| 1:39.4 | Yeah, you can't miss it. |
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