Tatum's return + Wemby's ascension
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni react to Jayson Tatum's return and what it means for the Celtics and Victor Wembanyama's growth this season. Then, the gang takes a look at the causes for the Pistons' losing streak, the Nuggets losing Jamal Murray as they get healthy, and the Lakers success without LeBron James.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Zena Keita
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 March 9th, |
| 0:13.9 | 2026. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Dave DeFore. |
| 0:15.9 | Here with Zena Keda and Esperi. |
| 0:18.1 | Coming up, Jason Tatum is back. |
| 0:20.4 | We're going to talk about his return. |
| 0:22.1 | Victor Womenyama is morphing in front of our eyes. |
| 0:24.8 | And we're going to hit some of the big games from the weekend. |
| 0:33.0 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:34.8 | What's up, Zena? |
| 0:36.4 | What's up, S? |
| 0:37.2 | How are you guys doing? |
| 0:38.5 | First of all, happy international women. |
| 0:42.3 | You stole my joke. |
| 0:46.0 | Step right on it. |
| 0:47.3 | Good job, S. |
| 0:48.3 | For those of you listening, I am putting my hands in a prayer formation to say, |
| 0:52.5 | you know what's funny? |
| 0:53.1 | I purposely didn't put it in the notes so that you didn't know it was coming. I just the LeBron. my hands in a prayer formation to say, oh, thank you. |
| 0:54.4 | So that you didn't know it was coming. |
| 0:57.0 | I just, the LeBron mean, the LeBron William was too much. |
| 1:01.0 | Now that I, you know, we didn't talk about it before the show. |
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