Pacers stop Cavs streak | Kings win 7th straight
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
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Summary
The Indiana Pacers stopped the Cleveland Cavaliers win streak at 12 games with a 108-93 win. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni discuss the Pacers big win and their recent success, the Kings winning ways under Doug Christie, and Jalen Brunson’s 44-point game against the Bucks. Then, the gang talks about the returns of Paolo Banchero and Aaron Gordon, the Nuggets place in the West, and their sicko games of the week.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 13th, 2025. |
| 0:11.1 | Coming up, the Cavs streak is over, but the Pacers and the Kings are still streaking. |
| 0:15.8 | Palo and Aaron Gordon are back. |
| 0:18.1 | And we look ahead and make some picks. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah. We're in Gordon are back, and we look ahead and make some picks. Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.6 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:36.9 | Another big and busy weekend in the NBA where I forgot that Thunder and Nix even played Friday night because we had so much stuff. |
| 0:45.9 | I think the Nix did too. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, rightfully. |
| 0:49.2 | You know, but they did bounce back a little bit. |
| 0:51.3 | We'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:52.8 | Guys, the biggest news on Monday morning, the Cleveland Cavaliers will not have a 15-game |
| 0:58.5 | win streak when they go up against the Thunder later on this week because they ran into |
| 1:02.4 | the Indiana Pacers who held them to only 93 points in a 108 to 93 win. |
| 1:08.1 | The Pacers, six straight win. |
| 1:09.8 | Obviously, got to talk about the Cavs first because this is the end of a 12-game win streak. |
| 1:14.7 | They had already won 15 games to start the season, Zena. |
| 1:18.9 | This is the number one offense in the NBA. |
| 1:21.7 | They fall to 33 and 5. |
| 1:23.4 | We've been impressed with them all season. |
| 1:25.7 | It was always going to end at some point. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm just a little bit surprised it was the Pacers. |
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