NBA Trade Season Begins
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour is joined by NBA Insider Sam Amick of the Athletic to discuss the NBA at large, what trends he is seeing, OKC's dominance, and what in the world is going on with the Clippers. After the break Sam dives deep on what is around the corner on the NBA trade market. Will Giannis actually be traded? What is the market for Anthony Davis? Can the Warriors find value for Jonathan Kuminga? All that and more.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Sam Amick
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 15th, 20205. I'm Dave DeFour. |
| 0:14.2 | Coming up, I sat down for 30 minutes with Sam Amick, had him empty the notebook on everything he's hearing on trade season. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome to our trade season primer. |
| 0:24.9 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:26.3 | Hey, Sam. |
| 0:27.4 | How are you? |
| 0:28.7 | Good morning, Dave. |
| 0:29.9 | Good to see you, my friend. |
| 0:30.9 | Been a while. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.9 | Not a busy time of year. |
| 0:33.1 | I mean, listen, you probably are busy all year. |
| 0:36.2 | I guess you get August and that's about it. |
| 0:39.3 | Late July, August, and then we kind of ramp up into September. But this is certainly, it's funny, |
| 0:44.3 | you keep running into random people in your life there. How are the holidays going? And I enjoy the |
| 0:49.3 | holiday season, but the first thought is always like, ah, it's pretty intense on the NBA front. But |
| 0:54.1 | it's a good problem to have. Yeah, trying to explain to people that I am super, super, super busy for the first, like, two and a half months. And then once we get to mid-January, I have, like, a normal life. You know, I can start to, you know, I don't have to watch the Orlando Magic versus the Charlotte Hornets at 430 in the afternoon. |
| 1:11.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:12.6 | I can read about it after. |
| 1:14.6 | Sam, it's trade season, December 15th. |
| 1:17.6 | We're here finally. |
| 1:20.6 | It seems like every single season this date arrives sooner, you know, at least in our hearts. |
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