Lakers on the rise + Playoff positioning
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni react to the Lakers thrilling win over the Nuggets, the Thunder handling business against the Wolves, and how the West playoffs have been affected. Then, the gang takes a look at the winning streaks of the Hawks and Magic, the Raptors best win of the season over Detroit, and the race for the 5th seed in the East.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for March 16th, |
| 0:14.1 | 2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi and Zena Keda. Coming up, we had a big weekend with |
| 0:20.5 | playoff implications a plenty. |
| 0:22.9 | We're going to check into that. |
| 0:23.9 | The Lakers and Nuggets had like a movie ending. |
| 0:26.6 | And we're going to hit that one. |
| 0:27.7 | And then we're going to talk about the Raptors beating the Pistons. |
| 0:30.3 | What? |
| 0:33.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:36.0 | The shark in your voice, day. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | Right. |
| 0:39.4 | And that was a dark. |
| 0:40.6 | win by the rap |
| 0:41.6 | by the Raptors. A week after S says the Raptors just don't have it, they probably got their biggest win of the year. Well, they're talking about that one. But we probably don't have it. But, you know, it's okay. They had it for the day. We'll talk about that one after the break. But guys, I want to start with this amazing game that we got Saturday night between the Lakers and the Nuggets. |
| 1:02.0 | The Lakers pull it out in overtime, 127, 125. |
| 1:05.8 | But how we got there was pretty incredible. |
| 1:08.6 | Austin Reeves maybe had the greatest intentionally missed free throw I've ever seen. |
| 1:15.9 | It was, I mean, exactly what you wanted to do. |
| 1:18.2 | JJ Redick said that that was the call. |
| 1:20.2 | He said, I need you to miss it here. |
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