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NBA Finals: Game 2 Preview

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Knicks stormed back from 14 points down to take home court advantage and game one from the Spurs thanks to Jalen Brunson’s 13 points in the fourth quarter. Zena Keita is joined by Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni from San Antonio to react to fallout from game one, the Knicks mental acuity, and how the Spurs find more easy buckets for Victor Wembanyama.


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Host: Zena Keita

With: Es Baraheni and Dave DuFour

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Lara Sinclair


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 5th, 26.

0:04.0

I'm Zena Keda, joined by Esperi Hini and Dave DeFour.

0:07.8

We got to break down game one of the NBA finals, preview a little bit of game two,

0:12.8

and I got to catch up with what my guys have been doing without me in San Antonio.

0:27.6

Fellas, hello. You guys in down in this don't you we miss you yeah we miss you zina it's not the same being at the finals without the whole team yeah i don't know which direction

0:34.5

we're going but you go this way you know in japan they do this right it kind of looks like i love this up you know i don't know i don't know which direction we're going, but we go this way. You know, in Japan, they do this, right? It kind of looks like we're doing the seize up. I just learned about this. Guys, by the way, for those just listening, we are putting our index fingers and thumbs together. That is apparently the new way to do hearts, which is adorable. Yeah, it's a heart sign. Yeah. I learned about it. This is money to me.

0:56.0

Rubbing it together and money.

0:58.2

It's two fingers for that one though.

1:00.2

That's right.

1:01.0

Maybe three even or four, depending.

1:04.4

That's a lot of money.

1:05.5

Speaking of which, speaking of which,

1:08.6

money was spent for y'all to go down to San Antonio.

1:10.9

How has it been live on site?

1:16.1

It's been a lot of fun.

1:17.7

S and I, we've had a chance.

1:19.3

Obviously, we were at game one.

1:20.5

We'll be at game two tonight.

1:22.6

But we really had a good time walking around around the Alamo area, the Riverwalk, talking to fans.

1:30.2

We knew that there were going to be a lot of Knicks fans in the building before we ever

1:35.5

arrived at the arena because they were outside.

1:38.4

They were in their jerseys.

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