Magic make Lakers streak disappear | Are the Timberwolves in trouble?
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Los Angeles Lakers winning streak stops at six games with a loss to the Orlando Magic. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Timberwolves loss to the Raptors and the potential changes to the All Star game format. Then, the Athletic’s Jovan Buha joins the show to discuss the Lakers late game troubles, LeBron James’ shooting, and the emergence of rookie Dalton Knecht. In the mailbag segment, Zena and Dave discuss the future of the San Antonio Spurs and their favorite Thanksgiving side-dish.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 22nd, 2024 coming up. |
| 0:11.9 | We've got new All-Star format coming, and we're going to get into that. |
| 0:15.9 | We've got Minnesota losing a game that they absolutely should not. |
| 0:19.6 | We're going to get into what's bothering them. |
| 0:21.7 | Yovon Buha stops by to talk about the Lakers right after they lose to the magic because |
| 0:25.8 | the NBA Daily Curse is real, folks. |
| 0:34.5 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.9 | Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:54.3 | Not a great morning for the Minnesota Timberwolves, though. They dropped a game last night that they definitely should have won. The Toronto Raptors are not a good basketball team. I'm not sure if they're a tanking team necessarily, but they are in the tank race for sure. And the Raptors won the game 110 105. |
| 0:57.4 | It was pretty close, but this is the sort of game, Zena, that a team with the expectations |
| 1:03.2 | of the Minnesota Timberwolves, even with the entire trade happening right before the season |
| 1:08.4 | started, this is just not the sort of game you expect them to lose. |
| 1:12.1 | And yet, here we are, 15 games in the season. |
| 1:16.4 | And this is exactly the sort of game that they keep losing week in, week out. |
| 1:21.8 | I see a lot of fans kind of losing it a little bit. |
| 1:24.9 | I see a lot of fans saying the words, Minnesota is bad. |
| 1:28.3 | Minnesota lost the trade. |
| 1:30.4 | And to that, I'll say, maybe. |
| 1:33.4 | It's early. |
| 1:34.3 | But it's early. |
| 1:35.5 | And the stats don't meet the eye test. |
| 1:37.9 | And I get what they're seeing. |
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