NBA Playoffs opening weekend recap
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita react to the opening game of every playoff series, the playoff debut of Victor Wembanyama, and LeBron James dictating the pace of the Lakers win over the Rockets.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Tony Jones
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 20th, |
| 0:03.7 | 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi Henni and Zena Keda coming up. |
| 0:07.7 | The first weekend of the playoffs are in the books. |
| 0:10.6 | We're going to talk about every series. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:20.2 | What is up, guys, weekend, first weekend of the playoffs in the books, playing over. Yeah, good hoops. Right now, my brain is battling between the Amazon song or the NBC song. I went to sleep literally playing the Amazon theme song in my mind. |
| 0:40.7 | So that's how much hoops for watching. |
| 0:42.1 | Well, the beauty of the Amazon song is that you hear it before the video starts. |
| 0:46.8 | Yes, you do. |
| 0:47.6 | Every single time, you know what's coming. |
| 0:50.2 | I've become privy to watching sports in America since I've been here this whole weekend. |
| 0:54.8 | It's a different experience. |
| 0:56.6 | I'll tell you that. |
| 0:57.4 | Yes, it's very expensive. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | Guys, all right. |
| 1:00.6 | Look, first weekend's in the books. |
| 1:03.1 | We got through the play in last week. |
| 1:04.7 | You got any takes you want to take back? |
| 1:07.9 | I was dumb to doubt Steph Curry and Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors. |
| 1:15.0 | How dare I? |
| 1:16.4 | That's funny because I'm the opposite. |
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