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

I'm Dave DeFore. Here with Zina Keda coming up. Kawhi Leonard had himself a fourth quarter.

We're going to hit that. Then James Edwards is here to talk with the Knicks, big win,

and what they need to do coming out of the All-Star break.

Good morning, everybody.

What's up, Zena?

And crazy Monday night at one point, Zena.

I could not keep up with the amount of games. 13 games on it once. Yeah, it was crazy. Man, my brain is kind of fried. I am too. Yeah, yeah. Well, and you're watching a little bit. I don't know how you're keeping up. Unrivaled. We got 13 games on Monday night. They were doing their one-on-one tournament. How was that? It was good. It's been fun watching it so far. Last night was the first night of the 101 tournament. And I like the fact that they've already split up the bigs and the small, so we don't have to see the inter-positional bat matches until later on. But keep watching. It doesn't end until this weekend. So lots of fun competitions so far. Yeah. And check out no offseason. One of Zena's other jobs around here.

All right. Hey, speaking of things to check out, Clippers and Rockets played a back-to-back in Houston.

Okay. So it's a little bit rare. And we hit the rocket side of this yesterday with Kelly Eco.

Well, the Clippers mounted a 15-point comeback in game two of the back-to-back to win the game.

Before we say anything, I know I've been hard on the Rockets.

It's hard to beat a team two nights in a row.

And the Clippers aren't that bad.

You know, there are only two games under 500 right now, and I know that they traded away

two of their best players, and it makes no sense.

Because Kauai Leonard is no doubt like a top 10 player this year, and we saw it last night,

Zena.

He put up 19 points in the fourth quarter, hit the game-winning pull-up in the lane

and won with two seconds left. And he was guarding Durant down the stretch, especially when he

started to heat up, he slid over. Listen, this, the game is a little bit of a throwaway, I think,

from a result standpoint, you know, like I can't, there's no big takeaway when you have to play second night of a back to back against a team he played yesterday.

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