Knicks and Magic advance to NBA Cup Semifinals
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour hosts a recap of night one of the NBA Cup Quarterfinals. First, Wes Goldberg, from Locked On Heat, joins the show to discuss Desmond Bane’s big night and All-Star level season so far, whether the Heat need to adjust their play style, and the fit for Giannis in Miami. Then, Es Baraheni is live from Toronto after the Knicks crush the Raptors to advance to Las Vegas.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Wes Goldberg
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 10th, 2025. I'm Dave DeFore and coming up. |
| 0:14.4 | We had NBA Cup quarterfinals action last night. The Magic beat the heat. We got West Goldberg |
| 0:19.5 | here to talk about that. The Knicks |
| 0:21.2 | beat the Raptors. S was in Toronto, so we're going to talk to him. And I get to say the seven |
| 0:25.9 | most exciting words on this podcast. Josh Robbins is going to Las Vegas. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:38.5 | Good morning, Wes. |
| 0:40.5 | Not a great night for the Miami Heat who Eric Spolster said on the bench, |
| 0:46.1 | you guys aren't trying hard enough to get to Las Vegas. |
| 0:48.4 | I don't know if it was an effort thing, man. |
| 0:50.3 | Like the magic really just, they had a little bit of magic last night. |
| 0:53.4 | They did. |
| 0:54.0 | And they are starting to look like the Orlando magic that they had a little bit of magic last night they did and they are starting |
| 0:55.2 | to look like the Orlando magic that we expected them to look like after a slow start i thought |
| 1:00.0 | it really stood out about the magic early in the season that they weren't playing with that level |
| 1:03.9 | of physicality that's not factor that they just had last year that really powered their defense |
| 1:08.8 | and their defense obviously powered their offense. |
| 1:12.1 | That's back, man. |
| 1:14.1 | That is back with this Orlando Magic team. |
| 1:19.5 | They had Miami, the older brother in Florida, at home in their arena, and they didn't let them get punked, right? |
| 1:20.8 | This is a magic team that is 3 and O against the Miami Heat so far this season. |
| 1:26.1 | And a lot of the games have looked like this. |
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