Rockets survive + Wolves surprise

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Nuggets disastrous loss to the Wolves, Victor Wembanyama's huge game 4, and the Raptors surprising the Cavs. Then, the guys take a look at how the Magic beat the Pistons, Karl-Anthony Towns series vs. Atlanta, and the Celtics dominating in Embiid's return.

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Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 27th, 2026.
0:04.5	I'm Dave DeFore here with S. Barahenegh coming up.
0:07.2	Week in two of the NBA playoffs is in the books.
0:10.4	We're going to hit every single series and give our takes.
0:19.0	Good morning, everybody. What is up, S?
0:22.8	Man.
0:23.0	Hope you're ready for a long podcast.
0:24.8	Yeah, lock in, everybody.
0:26.2	We got a lot to get to.
0:27.4	There is so much stuff happening.
0:29.4	You know, I got a text tonight watching games.
0:32.9	Have the playoffs been bad?
0:35.3	What?
0:35.8	Because we got a couple of blowouts, you know, back to back on Sunday.
0:39.9	And we've had all the injuries happen.
0:43.3	And I went through all of the things that are actually like compelling.
0:47.1	Like the nuggets absolutely falling apart at the seams.
0:51.0	Yes.
0:51.3	End of an era type stuff.
0:52.9	The Lakers kind of coming back. You know, and of course they lost yesterday, but still,
0:58.0	still a great story.
0:58.9	So I think this is a pretty good playoff so far, right?
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