Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 30th, 2024.

Coming up, we had a trade over the weekend.

We also had our first coach firing, so we're going to talk about the Kangs and their

interesting situation.

And Pat Riley has said the Miami Heat are not trading Jimmy Butler.

Also, the Raptors, I think, just turn the ball over again.

Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back.

We're back from our little break.

A little bit of a programming note.

We are going to be off for New Year's Day.

That way, S and I can, you know, have personal lives for one holiday night.

Have a little champagne or something, you know?

It's going to be nice.

But, man, we appreciate you guys sticking around during the break.

However, hope everybody had a

great holiday and got some rest. I know it's tough because the kids were out for like two weeks.

My gym has been packed with kids everywhere, guys. It's been, you know what? All right. Let's

jump with the news because we got too much. We got too much to hit. Guys, we have had a trade the los angeles lakers taking a swing

to try to fix what i think is a team that's pretty good and fix some of the problems that they've got

and they made a big a big move they go out and get a three and d wing in dorian finney smith they also

pick up shake milton who can help their guard rotation a little bit and they only only had to send out DeAngelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis, and three second round picks. So they got to keep the first rounders. So the powder's a little bit dry. Zena, look, I want to start with the Lakers side of this because this is a move for a team that's trying to win. What do you think about getting Dorian Finney Smith out there?

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