Thunder advance to NBA Finals
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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Summary
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points and was named Western Conference Finals MVP as the Thunder clinch and NBA Finals berth and Western Conference title. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Thunder continuing their incredible season and react to some SGA stats. Then, Jon Krawczynski joins the show to give his thoughts on the Wolves disappointing performance, lessons for Anthony Edwards, and whether the Thunder have any weakness.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita & Jon Krawczynski
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 29th, 2025. |
| 0:11.2 | Coming up, the Thunder are in the final. |
| 0:13.7 | So John Krasinski's here to talk about that. |
| 0:15.9 | Zina Kata and I are going to talk a little bit about how ridiculous Shay Gilgis Alexander's been. |
| 0:24.3 | Good morning. Zena. How's it going? It's going well, doubling up. |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah, going. Yeah, going great. We're going to OKC. Oh, wait. Some of us are going to OKC. |
| 0:37.3 | The Thunder have made the finals, the best. to O KC. Oh, wait. Some of us are going to OKC. |
| 0:43.9 | The Thunder have made the finals, the best team all year long, 68 wins. |
| 0:45.5 | They checked every single box. |
| 0:47.6 | They beat Yokic. |
| 0:50.0 | They, you know, they've done it. |
| 0:51.2 | They've made the finals. |
| 0:53.5 | Are you surprised at all, Zena? |
| 0:56.1 | Not even in a little bit. |
| 0:59.7 | Like the fact that you didn't even mention Memphis is hilarious, but yes. Yeah. |
| 1:00.9 | I was thinking to the basketball teams. |
| 1:02.3 | He took care of Yokic. |
| 1:03.5 | Now they took care of Ant Man and they are on their way to the finals. |
| 1:07.6 | Good for them. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.4 | Shea Gildes-Alex Alexander was named the conference finals MVP, |
| 1:14.0 | which is got to say, we've got too many awards. The Oscar Robertson, |
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