Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
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Summary
Stephen Curry made 12 3-points en route to a season high 56 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to their 5th straight win. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni breakdown Steph’s big night, the emergence of Quenten Post, and LeBron James’ MVP level play. Then, the Athletic’s Law Murray joins the show to talk about Luka’s hate for the Clippers and NBA offensive identities.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni & Law Murray
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
Read Law’s story on Offenses: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6064695/2025/02/20/nba-offensive-identity-cavaliers-thunder/
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.1 | Coming up, Steph Curry. |
| 0:10.7 | He's ridiculous. |
| 0:11.5 | He's the goat. |
| 0:12.3 | We're going to talk about him a little bit. |
| 0:13.5 | The Lakers got another win, but Anthony Edwards, oddly, got ejected and may miss a few games. |
| 0:18.9 | And Law Murray stops by for a wide-ranging conversation about why every team doesn't |
| 0:24.8 | actually play this. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:31.8 | Good morning, S. |
| 0:33.3 | Good morning, Dave. |
| 0:35.3 | Great night of hoops. |
| 0:36.5 | What a great night. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah. Look, the Warriors went to Orlando. And look, with the way Orlando has been playing, they got crushed by 40 the other night. I was thinking, all right, we're probably not going to hit this game. The Warriors would just wipe them out. Didn't work out that way. The Warriors did win the game and we're going to get to that. |
| 0:55.2 | But the way this game started out, the magic actually had a really nice run to start the game, |
| 1:01.1 | got themselves a big lead. But Steph Curry just did the thing that he does and had a 22.3rd |
| 1:08.7 | quarter. He had 12 threes in the game, had 56 points. |
| 1:12.5 | And the Warriors needed all of those to win the game and including all the points |
| 1:18.2 | they got from Quentin Post, who we'll talk about. |
| 1:20.2 | But this game was number one, a game that I did not expect us to be talking about. |
| 1:26.4 | So it was a nice surprise. |
| 1:28.3 | But number two, Steph Curry, 56 freaking points. |
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