Playoff Pressure Meter + Weekend Update
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The NBA season is winding down and the NBA Daily crew discusses which West playoff teams under the most pressure. Dave, Es and Zena discuss the weekend of basketball, a brawl between the Pistons and Wolves, and the games of the week.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and 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. |
| 0:09.0 | Coming up, I'm back. |
| 0:11.0 | I missed a lot, apparently. |
| 0:12.0 | The Grizzlies fired their coach. |
| 0:14.0 | Cleveland and Oklahoma City both hit 60 wins, |
| 0:17.0 | and we had a big brawl in Minnesota, |
| 0:19.0 | and would you believe it, the Detroit Pistons were involved? |
| 0:30.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:32.2 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:34.2 | Good to see your faces. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:36.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.4 | You just sit here for 30 minutes catching up right before the podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | You know, a little podcast magic there. Thank you guys for filling in for me last week. The shows were awesome. It was a lot of fun. I spent the week in the woods. It's very good for me. Shout out to our national parks. |
| 0:54.2 | Yosemite National Park was a lot of fun. Beautiful park. |
| 0:55.2 | When I got out of the woods, guys, I was bombarded once I got cell phone service by just a bevy of news. |
| 1:02.1 | First, sad news, I learned about Juju Watkins tearing her ACL. |
| 1:05.7 | And it really just put a damper on my trip because I was looking forward to catching some of her games over the weekend. |
| 1:11.9 | And then I found out that the Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins with nine games left in the season. |
| 1:19.2 | And guys, this obviously is a huge surprise to everyone. |
| 1:23.5 | Keith Parrish, good buddy of mine, did Saturday slamming jam. |
| 1:27.1 | And he kind of, you know, went through the entire thing. |
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