Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 2nd, 2026.

I'm Dave Dufour.

Here is Zena Keda and Sam Amick coming up.

We go deep with Sam on the MVP race, why Luca has had such a ridiculous month.

And we talk about Steph Curry's impending comeback.

Good morning, everybody. What is up? Zena, Sam. Welcome. Been a minute. How you doing, buddy?

What's up, friends? Good to see you. It has been a minute. Glad to be with you here.

Yeah. We're almost in the playoffs, man. What's your travel schedule like? What's your travel schedule like the next couple weeks?

I know that you like to get out and check in with as many teams as possible right now.

It's funny, though, Dave, you would think that'd be the case.

And it is true, but you end up downshifting a little bit.

At least I do when I have the luxury of doing that ahead of the playoffs,

knowing that it's a long haul first round it's funny

as we speak i am in a hotel room in san francisco i will occasionally even though i live a couple

hours away near sacramento i'll occasionally camp out down here if there's back-to-backs the warriors

have a back-to-back now. So coming down to do a

warrior's game, get to see the spurs, get to see the calves tomorrow, but trying to recharge

a little bit before the playoffs. And the Warriors part is funny because selfishly for the longest

time throughout their dynasty, they made my logistical life a little easier because,

you know, the most relevant team in the NBA was right down the road. So this whole prospect of them

bowing out early and me having to get on an airplane in the first round is a new one. And so probably

the Kings aren't helping you out there. Yeah. Oh, do they have an NBA team?

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