New Year Mailbag | Morning Shootaround
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss and take listener questions about the first half of the season and the upcoming NBA trade deadline.Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/eme2tPcUM2
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the NBA Daily's the morning shootaround. |
| 0:15.0 | We're live on YouTube. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. |
| 0:19.2 | The show's presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:21.9 | Thanks for joining us on YouTube or listening. |
| 0:24.1 | What up? |
| 0:24.9 | We put this pod on the feed after the fact, but if you ever want to join us live, we |
| 0:29.7 | love to take questions as we go. |
| 0:32.5 | And if you haven't yet, join our Discord. |
| 0:35.0 | If you're, again, if you listen listen to the podcast the link is in the show |
| 0:38.1 | description uh we took a bunch of questions from the discord and we will also take questions from |
| 0:43.0 | the live chat but before we get to the questions s how's it going i'm good man i'm good |
| 0:48.4 | viving out you know we're kind of in the lulls of the NBA season as we both know know, January is, it's sort of weird because it's also the time of the calendar that matters the most. |
| 1:00.4 | Right. |
| 1:00.9 | But it's also the time where most the conversation ends up being either trade related or injury related or why is this team that was very good to start the year all of a sudden |
| 1:12.9 | slumping related like it's just yeah it's kind of those are the three conversations that end up |
| 1:17.6 | revolving but uh yeah i'm good otherwise man kind of tregging along until the uh the trade deadline |
| 1:23.6 | comes well yeah we're almost at the halfway point. So we'll probably do like our bigger |
| 1:27.8 | check-ins next week. Yeah. You know, I feel like the first of the year, this is, it's all trade talk. |
| 1:34.1 | You know, we've got it past December 15th. We've gotten through the NBA Cup and Christmas Day. |
| 1:40.1 | And we are a little under a week away from the January 15th deadline. |
| 1:45.2 | So everyone is available for trade, essentially. |
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