Pistons cooked? + Nuggets Survive
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Orlando Magic winning the pivotal game four in their series with the Pistons, the Pistons lack of adjustments, and Cooper Flagg's Rookie of the Year win. Then, Jon Krawczynski joins the show after the Wolves lose game five of their series with the Nuggets to discuss Minnesota's loss and their best chance to win game six.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Jon Krawczynski
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 28, 2026. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. |
| 0:06.4 | Coming up, the Magic, take a 3-1 lead after another win over the Pistons. |
| 0:11.2 | Cooper Flag is a rookie of the year. |
| 0:13.1 | And John Krasinski is here to talk about the Wolves' loss to the Nuggets. |
| 0:26.7 | Good morning, everybody. What is up? S. How are you, buddy? |
| 0:32.3 | Man, I am doing well for a guy who lives very close to Detroit right now. |
| 0:44.0 | How about those Orlando magic? Just absolutely making us all look like fools for predicting that they were going to not even make it out of the playoff? For almost predicting their demise, you know, everybody was, I mean, us included two weeks ago, |
| 0:51.7 | we're talking about how the Orlando Magic were the laughing stock of the NBA, right? |
| 0:57.0 | Jamal Mosley going to get fired. What are the magic going to do next? Are they going to blow it up and |
| 1:02.1 | split up Franz Wagner and Paulo Bencaro? And just like that, they're now up 3-1 against the number |
| 1:09.6 | one-seed Detroit Pistons, looking to be the seventh eight seed in NBA history to beat a number one seed. |
| 1:17.7 | I couldn't have expected this to happen. |
| 1:20.1 | I genuinely did not expect it. |
| 1:21.4 | Can I get crazy for a second before we talk about this game? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.0 | There's a world where the Orlando Magic are in the Eastern Conference Finals. Yes. Yes, there is. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, listen, the Raptors are, it's two, two with the Cavs. Mm-hmm. I don't know what's going to happen there. Yep. But with the way that the magic have played, especially, like, it's the defense, right? It's not, it's not their offense for |
| 1:45.2 | sure because they had an awful offensive game. It was essentially a mirror image of what the |
| 1:52.4 | Raptors did on Sunday. Yes. Basically just a percentage point away from being the worst shooting game in a playoff win ever after the Raptors had just |
| 2:04.8 | done it night before that. |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:08.0 | It's ugly. |
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