Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 7th, 2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Zena Keda.

Coming up, the Knicks, take a 2-0 lead in their series against the Sixers and the Spurs blow out the wolves in game two.

Jared Weiss is here to talk about that.

Good morning, everybody. What is up? Zena, how are you? It's good to see you. Good to have you back all week. We missed you last week. Yeah, it's been good. We had a great pod talking about what the players think about some folks around the association and some folks showed up you could tell maybe

maybe they heard the pod it was good games last night yeah it was pretty good you know hey do you

watch baseball zina oh i wear this hat for fashion okay all right well look there's a weird thing

happening and this is unrelated to anything else we're going to talk about but we talk so much about load management in the NBA there's this guy paul skeins he pitches for the

oh i know paul skeins okay pitches for the pirates guy is great all time like he might be an all

time pitcher one day yep he pitched eight shutout innings had 98 pitches struck out the three batters, and they didn't throw him out there for the complete game. And man, my sports sensibility, I read this and I was like, this can't be real. I was not watching the game, obviously. But I read this. Yeah. I was like, this can't be real. Load management is infecting everything. We got to get this out of sports.

Come on. It's just bad. That's awful. That's my non-basketball sports rant.

You said you didn't watch it. I imagine he bought that because my goodness, like at this, at that point for the last, you said, which he came out in the last inning?

Yeah, last inning. Wow. Yeah, that's sad. I'm sure he was pissed about inning. Yeah. Last inning. Wow.

Yeah. That's sad.

I'm sure he was pissed about it. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It's that's not, that's not fun sports. Anyway, we need more complete games. The game itself, if you're to wolves, not a lot of fun. The spurs just completely blew him out. And it started, you know, the game was just, it was a rock fight at first.

Like no one can hit a shot. fun. The spurs just completely blew them out. And it started, you know, the game was just,

it was a rock fight at first. Like no one can hit a shot. And then the spurs just turned it on.

And Zena, look, we felt as if the wolves really figured something out in game one. You know,

they were attacking Wimby. And it just, those shots weren't following the same way. They just didn't have the same amount of juice, I imagine.

I think that if you're the wolves, you probably, look, you're not going to win them all.

Yeah.

But going back to Minnesota split one, one, you got to still feel pretty good.

That ain't too bad. That ain't too bad. That's exactly. They always say a series doesn't start until one team wins on the road. And Minnesota started this with a win on the road. So I wasn't too mad as, you know, as they went down pretty bad. It ended up 133 to 95. I still, I'm not worried for them. I'm like, you already got a win on San Antonio.

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