NBA Christmas Day Preview
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht, Es Baraheni and Dave DuFour preview the Christmas Day games by unboxing a gift from the NBA! They unwrap ornaments that symbolize the Christmas Day games and discuss the games. Then in part 2 the guys take a look at Christmas past and the amazing performances from the stars on Christmas.
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Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Es Baraheni, Dave DuFour
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Ho, ho, ho, and Merry Christmas to all of our NBA daily listeners. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm your guest host, Andrew Schleck today. |
| 0:17.7 | We're going to preview the NBA games on Christmas Day along for this sleigh ride with me. |
| 0:24.2 | That's probably too much. Dave DeFore. Hey. Merry Christmas. Santa's little helper. What's going on? |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. Happy holidays. Very important because there's a lot of holidays right now. Absolutely. |
| 0:37.1 | Lost track. Happy holidays, everybody. Yeah. It's true. So we are previewing the Christmas Day games here and to help us, thanks to the NBA, they sent us this red box, which if you're watching on YouTube, I recommend you watch this on YouTube. You can listen to it. We'll do our best to tell you everything that's going on here. |
| 0:54.5 | But this is very much a YouTube-y show. |
| 0:57.1 | So be sure to tune in on our YouTube channel, subscribe to our YouTube channel as well. |
| 1:01.4 | We are going to use this box. |
| 1:02.9 | I don't even quite know what's in it. |
| 1:05.1 | And so I tease this on social. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm very curious to open this box to see what's going on here |
| 1:10.7 | because it's going to help us preview the slate of NBA games here. |
| 1:15.3 | So I'm going to open this up. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm excited. |
| 1:18.4 | Shout up to the NBA. |
| 1:19.3 | And see what's in here. |
| 1:20.1 | Thank you, NBA. |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:22.7 | So first thing we have here. |
| 1:25.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm going to use this for our, after our break, we're going to use these photos. |
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