Thunder and Pistons take 2-0 series leads
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the Thunder and Pistons moving closer to the conference finals, the Lakers beef with the referees, and James Harden's awful postseason. Then, the guys debate which fanbase deserves to win the Draft Lottery, discuss John Hollinger's top 15 draft prospects, and Draymond Green's television persona.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 8th, 2026. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi. |
| 0:06.4 | Coming up, the Thunder take a 2-0 series lead over the Lakers. |
| 0:10.6 | The Pistons take a 2-0 series lead over the calves. |
| 0:13.8 | And we've got the lottery coming up this weekend. |
| 0:22.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | What's up, S. |
| 0:25.4 | The sun is bright. |
| 0:27.1 | S has the shades on. |
| 0:27.7 | That's right. |
| 0:28.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm doing the shades because we're going to be throwing a lot of shade at the referees here at this, in this episode. |
| 0:36.7 | I apologize to John Goebel. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah. Well, maybe the Lakers are going to wind up having to apologize in the form of some fines uh let's jump right into that thunder handled the lakers |
| 0:47.1 | 125 107 as this felt like a game that the lakers might steal at a certain point. |
| 0:54.7 | But if you look into box score, it was like 6664, you know, and when I'm watching these games, |
| 0:59.3 | I've got the play-by-play going. |
| 1:01.1 | I've got the box score, got the game. |
| 1:04.4 | 6664. |
| 1:05.8 | Lakers feel like they're in control a little bit, but then you look at the box score. |
| 1:09.9 | Lakers were shooting 47% from three at that point. |
| 1:13.1 | Lights out. |
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