Nobody likes the 65-game rule
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the NBA Player's Association complaints about the Bucks shutting down Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Player Participation Policy's 65-game rule. Then, Carter Rodriguez from the Chasedown Podcast joins Dave to dive deep into the Cavs post-deadline success, the James Harden experience, and why Donovan Mitchell may be a target in the playoffs.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Carter Rodriguez
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for March 25th, |
| 0:06.0 | 2026. I'm Dave DeFore. Here with Zena Keda coming up. The NBA Players Association has |
| 0:12.2 | some beef with the league. We're going to get into that. Then Carter Rodriguez from the |
| 0:15.9 | Chase Down podcast is here to talk about the Cavs and the James Hardin experience. |
| 0:28.4 | Good morning, everybody. Hey, Zena, how are you? |
| 0:32.7 | I'm wonderful, Dave. It was nice, easy night of basketball last night. Always nice. Yeah, not too bad. We got the calves and magic calves look pretty good at the end of that game. |
| 0:38.1 | Carter Rodriguez is going to join me after the break to dig in on the calves and the James |
| 0:42.6 | Hardin experience. It's been a fun one for him. The NBA Players Association had a lot to say, |
| 0:49.9 | Zena yesterday. Out of nowhere, we haven't really heard much from these guys. |
| 0:54.5 | You know, there's been scandals all year. |
| 0:56.5 | There's been all sorts of things. |
| 0:58.2 | You don't hear much from the NBA Players Association. |
| 1:00.7 | But for some reason, Zena, we got two notes about the or from the NBA Players Association yesterday. |
| 1:08.9 | Let's start with their criticism of the Bucks injury management of Janus Antecompo. |
| 1:15.7 | They stated, the player participation policy was designed by the league to hold teams accountable |
| 1:20.6 | and ensure that when an all-star like Janus is healthy and ready to play, he is on the court. |
| 1:26.2 | Unfortunately, anti-tanking policies are only as |
| 1:29.4 | effective as their enforcement. And I'm just going to leave it there. The rest of it, you know, |
| 1:33.5 | you can go read it. It's over at the athletic. Straight up, Zena, how do you feel about that? |
| 1:39.6 | I think I'm kind of into this. Dave, you left the one part. |
| 1:44.8 | Can you go back and check the ownership quote? |
| 1:47.6 | What did they say about ownership? |
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