NBA Free Agency Special
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni break down the first free agency deals from the first hour.
Host: Zena Keita
With: Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Just when we thought free agency was dry, the nuggets have poured it up. |
| 0:13.0 | NBA Daily, we are live with our NBA Free Agency special. |
| 0:17.0 | What up? |
| 0:18.0 | Coming to you on the night of June 30th. Free agency just opened up about four hours ago, |
| 0:24.0 | and it was looking real boring, okay? Literally, we were all Josh Hart. Where are our deals? |
| 0:29.7 | Where are the big names? What's happening? Of course, some teams have done pretty well for themselves. |
| 0:35.1 | We're going to touch on those thinking about Houston, thinking about Memphis, thinking about some of these teams. We're going to look at the West. |
| 0:40.2 | But first and foremost, we have got to talk about the trade that just came through as break it down for me. |
| 0:46.3 | Denver just got who? |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah. So ESPN's Sean Saroni reported that the Denver Nuggets are trading Michael Porter Jr. |
| 0:53.7 | And an unprotected 2032 first round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for Cam Johnson. |
| 0:59.7 | The reason they could trade the 2032 pick, by the way, is because we are officially a new calendar year. |
| 1:05.5 | That's right. |
| 1:06.2 | They can now trade that 2032 pick. |
| 1:09.2 | Cam Johnson, a member of the Denver N the denver nuggets guys i will go out and |
| 1:12.8 | say this scary absolutely love this trade for the denver nuggets they actually get taking less |
| 1:20.6 | money because cam makes less than michael border junior which i think gives them a little bit more |
| 1:26.1 | freedom to do stuff and free agency too. |
| 1:28.2 | I got to double check that. |
| 1:29.1 | But in terms of player for player swap, I honestly think Cam Johnson is better than Michael |
| 1:34.0 | Porter Jr. |
| 1:34.9 | Just straight up. |
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