Rockets Spurs Thriller + Kuminga’s return
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Jimmy Butler injury news and Jonathan Kuminga’s opportunity, Keynote George’s 43-point game, and Jalen Green’s return. Then, Will Guillory joins the show to discuss the Rockets comeback win over the Spurs, their defense on Victor Wembanyama, and whether they will make a move at the trade deadline.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Will Guillory
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 21st, |
| 0:13.4 | 2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. Coming up, Jonathan Gomingo played because Jimmy |
| 0:20.0 | Butler's out. We're going to get to that. |
| 0:22.0 | Kiante George had 43 points. |
| 0:24.4 | We're going to talk about him. |
| 0:25.7 | And Will Gilleries here to talk about the Rockets, big comeback to beat the Spurs. |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:33.9 | What's going on as late night for the Raptors, man. |
| 0:38.0 | Raptors on the West Coast basically playing at midnight Eastern. |
| 0:42.9 | Dave, you know me. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm basically always on the West Coast because I'm with you guys. |
| 0:46.6 | That's true. |
| 0:47.3 | This is my regular schedule. |
| 0:48.8 | Raptors are just adjusting to me, really. |
| 0:50.9 | My favorite thing is pretending like I work late when S is up and Adam, three hours |
| 0:57.3 | definitely later than me. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you know how cold it is in Toronto right now, by the way? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:02.9 | It was 74. |
| 1:04.3 | I walked home from the gym with no shirt on today. |
| 1:06.8 | I actually found out today that Fahrenheit ends up getting closer to Celsius once it hits zero. So right now it's it's minus 30 Celsius. The quick and the quick and dirty translation is double it and add 30, right? Sure. So yeah. But anyway, double the Celsius, add 30 that gives you Fahrenheit. It also works, you know, when you get down around zero. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cold up there. A lot of snow. Yeah. But look, the raptures were heating up tonight. |
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