The Cavs slide + Houston’s Playoff Prep
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Cavs stop their slide with a win against Utah, but what does it really mean for the Cavs? Es Baraheni and Zena Keita play Something, Nothing or Everything with the Cavs slide, Suns winning 3 in a row, Lakers returning to full strength, the fun Bulls and the Clippers surging. Then, the Athletic’s Kelly Iko joins to discuss the Houston Rockets and the expectations for them in the Playoffs + what could happen in the offseason with the roster.
Host: Es Baraheni
With: Zena Keita and Kelly Iko
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:10.6 | Coming up, we've got Kelly Eco here to talk about the Rockets who were surging and |
| 0:15.5 | not so surging anymore after losing to the Nuggets. |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to be doing a game of something, nothing, or everything since Dave isn't here. |
| 0:24.3 | And we wanted to take over the show. |
| 0:30.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:31.7 | Everybody, Zina. |
| 0:32.9 | How you doing? |
| 0:33.6 | Good morning to you. |
| 0:35.2 | No, Dave. |
| 0:35.9 | It feels a little strange here. i know we're going to try to |
| 0:39.8 | keep it similar to the vibes right because we're bringing back a segment everybody loves which is |
| 0:46.3 | something nothing or everything um let's recap this weekend by doing that okay so the cleveland |
| 0:52.7 | cavaliers have lost four of their last five. |
| 0:56.4 | They beat the Utah Jazz on Sunday, but that's no real great thing, if you will. |
| 1:02.1 | That's not a feather in your cap. |
| 1:06.1 | So they've lost four in a row outside of Sunday. |
| 1:10.2 | They lost the magic, the clippers, kings, and sons. |
| 1:13.1 | Is that something, nothing, or everything? |
| 1:18.0 | I want to say it's nothing only because I've seen teams have skids at the end of the year. |
| 1:24.3 | And it's like, is this going to be an indication on the fact that this is a team that's |
| 1:27.7 | had 12 game winning streaks three times this season, 15 game winning streaks, |
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