Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 10th, 2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Sam

Amic and Esbaran. Coming up, we're going to talk about Joelle Embedes, Appendicitis, Janus, and the Bucks

drama. And we're going to hit on the Strawpole MVP winner.

Good morning, everybody. What is up, guys? We got two guys on location.

S is in an arena. He's at the Raptors. I might as well be at a concert without this music is playing.

Sam Amick looks like he's on vacation here. You're outside of Chase Center. What a beautiful view behind an arena. Not bad, right?

I mean, I figured if I was a few minutes late, at least I could do is provide a little scenery.

Yeah, it looks great. Beautiful blue sky. For folks who haven't been here, we'll do a little visual for the video audience.

It's a little San Francisco Bay behind you. We got the arena. This is exclusive stuff for the YouTube audience right here. Yes. That's awesome. That's where Clay's to pull his boat up right there. If you guys, if you guys are listening, this is probably not that interesting. This direction behind me, that's where Clay would cruise across the bay. And as somebody who grew up in this neck of the woods, it never gets old.

It's pretty nice out here.

Sadly, we've got to start the show off with some bad news.

Joelle Embed has appendicitis and had to have emergency surgery yesterday.

So he is probably just done for the year. It seems like when this happens to NBA

players, they're out at least three weeks. This team is basically fighting for its life in the

play in right now. Sam, we were talking about this earlier this week. M. B.'s kind of been sick

for a little bit. And I mean, I don't know if these are related.

Like, has he had appendicitis this entire time?

Like, I don't know.

I mean, you know, it feels like a very precarious situation.

No, I agree.

And it's funny, guys, there are not oftentimes or, you know,

where us regular folks can have a little bit of insight

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