Pacers advance to Conference Finals + Thunder survive Jokić

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Indiana Pacers finished off the Cleveland Cavaliers 4 games to 1 to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals, and Dave DuFour and Zena Keita are here to react. They discuss Tyrese Haliburton’s huge game and whether the Cavaliers need to make any changes this summer. Then, following an epic game between the Nuggets and Thunder, Andrew Schlecht joins the show to talk about OKC’s win, why the Thunder bet on Lu Dort, and how the Nuggets get the series to a seventh game.

Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita & Andrew Schlecht

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:28.3	good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:41.4	Coming up, the Pacers are in the Eastern Conference Finals,
0:45.0	finishing off the Cleveland Cavaliers in five.
0:47.6	And Oklahoma City has a three games to lead over the Denver Nuggets.
0:51.7	We got Andrew Select here to talk about it after the game.
0:58.6	Music lead over the Denver Nuggets. We got Andrew Select here to talk about it after the game. Wow, we are moving along in the playoffs.
1:02.6	Zena Keda.
1:03.4	I'm Dave Dufour.
1:04.9	Zena, the Pacers are the first team to make the conference finals.
1:10.2	What do you think?
1:11.5	Just initial gut reaction to the Pacers making a second consecutive conference finals.
1:17.7	They deserve it.
1:19.3	Dave, I think if you're looking at all the teams in this playoffs, who is the most consistent
1:25.9	to what they look like during the regular season?
1:28.7	It's Indiana.
1:29.8	They were an offensive team focused in terms of being able to get the ball around.
1:34.2	They averaged about 30 assists during the regular season.
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