Our biggest burning NBA Draft questions
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The NBA Draft is just a day away and Es Baraheni is joined by Derek Parker of Sports Illustrated to discuss the NBA Draft and players to watch for, Ace Bailey’s draft range, and so much more.
Host: Es Baraheni
With: Derek Parker
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily for June 24th, 2025. |
| 0:13.7 | It is Parade Day in Oklahoma City, but it is also one day before the NBA draft. |
| 0:19.8 | I've got Derek Parker here from Sports Illustrated, |
| 0:22.6 | breaking down everything, NBA draft related. |
| 0:25.5 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:32.3 | Good morning, Derek. |
| 0:33.7 | What a couple of months it's been for you to cover this. |
| 0:38.1 | Actually, an entire season covering this Oklahoma City Thunder run to a championship. |
| 0:45.4 | I've seen a lot of conversations about how kind of muted the celebration was from them. |
| 0:51.3 | You know, they didn't necessarily pop champagne crazy like that. |
| 0:54.1 | And it seemed like |
| 0:55.1 | most of them were very humbled to be there. And that's sort of the mannerisms of SGA and Mark |
| 1:00.0 | Dagnon, the whole crew with Sam Presti and whatnot. But it was an awesome, awesome season, historic in |
| 1:08.7 | basically every single way. And you got a chance to cover it, man, for Oklahoma |
| 1:13.0 | City. So your thoughts on this championship run for the Thunder. Yeah, like you said, probably the |
| 1:19.3 | longest season of my life. I think the time from the start of the finals to the end of the finals was, |
| 1:25.0 | I think it was like three years, three or four years somewhere in there. I grew as a man. I grew as a person. You grew a beard now I'm just yeah yeah I got this this got like an |
| 1:32.6 | inch longer throughout it but no man it was so fun I mean this is like the dream as a reporter as a writer |
| 1:38.2 | like yes this is all you can hope for as a basketball fan in general and obviously the games were |
| 1:42.7 | phenomenal just everything about it was so fun. |
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