Michael Malone out in Denver + Thunder get revenge on Lakers
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
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Summary
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 42 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni talk to Andrew Schlecht postgame to discuss the Thunder win, Shai’s big game, and Luka Doncic’s ejection. Then, Adam Mares from DNVR joins the show to discuss Michael Malone’s firing, Jamal Murray’s health, and what comes next for the post-Malone Denver Nuggets and Nikola Jokić.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni, Andrew Schlecht, & Adam Mares
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:41.4 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:43.9 | Coming up, Andrew Schlect, live postgame, |
| 0:47.3 | with someone doing the elliptical next to him after Thunderlaker. |
| 0:52.2 | And then I've got Adam Marez to talk about Michael Malone being fired by the Nuggets. |
| 1:04.1 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 1:05.6 | Good morning, guys. |
| 1:08.5 | Andrew, thanks for hanging out post-game. |
| 1:13.7 | The Thunder get a little bit of revenge on the Lakers for the blowout. |
| 1:15.9 | But I got to start with this, Andrew. |
| 1:19.9 | How did you get Luca Dantjejected from this game? |
| 1:29.7 | It was so, it was funny because I went and talked to JJ post game. and listened to what he had to say. |
| 1:31.4 | He said Luca was talking to a fan. |
| 1:35.3 | And then you hear from the Thunder side and you read the pool report, |
| 1:40.2 | JT. or the official believed that it was being directed at him. |
| 1:45.9 | And even Mark Degnell had talked to JT after he was ejected asking what was going on. And JT said that he had directed him. And even Mark Degnell had talked to J.T. after he was ejected asking what was going on, |
| 1:53.1 | and JT said that he had directed something toward him. And it was, so there was confusion, I think, as to actually what happened here. It was a fan that, that I actually, I know this fan that was |
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