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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni are joined by Law Murray to discuss the weekly power rankings and how he decides them week to week, who are the surprise teams that are thriving, who is struggling and more.

Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni, Law Murray

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 7th, 2025.
0:11.7	I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperiheini and Law Murray coming up.
0:15.7	Power rankings.
0:16.6	Law Murray does power rankings at the athletic.
0:18.6	We're going to debate them.
0:19.6	We're going to hold them to the fire a little bit.
0:21.3	Then we're going to talk all things Clippers and why they're struggling out of the gate.
0:30.8	Good morning, everybody.
0:32.5	What's up, guys?
0:34.2	Law Murray joining me in S live from Phoenix
0:38.0	only one game on the schedule
0:41.9	on Thursday night is kind of weird
0:44.8	it is weird yeah not sure
0:47.7	how that happened
0:49.5	they wanted a blank slate for the Bradley
0:52.7	Beal revenge game.
0:56.1	That's what they want.
1:00.0	Okay, so here's why you get weird scheduling like this.
1:03.4	Number one, it's Thursday during NFL season. So the NFL has, I don't even know who's playing Thursday night.
1:08.3	I'm pretty sure that Denver Broncos are.
1:09.9	Shout out to them.
1:10.4	They're playing well. The NBA likes to duck the NFL. So that's one reason. Number two, you have the NBA
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