Luka and Lakers advance in NBA Cup
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the big NBA Cup matchups from the week and how the Orlando Magic have changed without Paolo Banchero. Then, Law Murray joins the guys to talk about the Lakers respecting the NBA Cup with a win and to diagnose what's ailing the Clippers.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Law Murray
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 26, 2025. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Dave DeFour here with Esperi. |
| 0:13.7 | Coming up, it's Cup week. |
| 0:15.7 | We're going to talk all things NBA Cup, including last night's games. |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to look ahead to the end of the week. And then we got Law Murray to talk about the Lakers clenching their trip to the knockout round and what's going on with the Clippers. Good morning, everybody. What's up? Ask great hoodie. If you're watching on YouTube, you see it. If you're listening, we've got the Seattle Supersonics. Yeah, bring the Sonics back, man. Yeah. Easy, peasy. Why not? Save our Sonics. Yeah. Great documentary from back in the day. Absolutely. There were only three games last night, kind of a slow night, but the NBA trying to feature these NBA Cup games. |
| 0:57.3 | You know, |
| 0:57.4 | we've talked about how it's really, |
| 0:59.1 | it's hurt Thursday nights throughout this run. |
| 1:02.8 | But this week, |
| 1:03.7 | they're loading up because we're heading to the knockout stage. |
| 1:07.6 | And so only three games last night. |
| 1:09.1 | And you knew it because, like, |
| 1:10.2 | social media, like blue sky, they were talking about |
| 1:13.1 | pie. |
| 1:14.5 | Right? |
| 1:15.4 | I mean, there were blowouts. |
| 1:18.1 | You were either super excited about the wizards putting up 45 in the first quarter |
| 1:22.1 | or on the Hawks, which is just. |
| 1:23.9 | Which was exciting. |
| 1:25.1 | Atlanta should feel embarrassed. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.6 | Or they were talking about the merits of key lime pie versus lemon maring. |
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