Thunder, Cavs continue dominance | Sixers & Suns in turmoil
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
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Summary
Donovan Mitchell scored 33 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers won their league leading 47th game of the season. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita discuss the importance the Cavs and Thunder regular season marks, Luka and the Lakers blowout win over Jokić and the Nuggets, whether the Knicks are contenders, and if Jimmy Butler is everything for the Warriors. Then, the gang debates who has it worse while comparing the cursed seasons of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Phoenix Suns.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita & Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:41.7 | Coming up, we look back at a weekend full of blowouts and try to figure out which of them mean something, which of them mean nothing, and which of them mean everything, which I don't know if any of them really mean everything, but we'll see. |
| 0:53.0 | And we're going to take a look at the Sons and Sixers' weird years so far. |
| 1:02.9 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 1:04.2 | Good morning, guys. |
| 1:06.1 | Morning. |
| 1:07.2 | Weekend in the books in the NBA. |
| 1:09.9 | Man, we had so many games this weekend. |
| 1:12.3 | And, you know, I know we just had the All-Star break, but it feels like it just crammed like 700 games in the last three days. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, all like nationally televised. |
| 1:22.9 | We got our Sunday slate. |
| 1:24.3 | The Sunday slate is back, by the way. |
| 1:26.5 | It's back. |
| 1:27.4 | Yes, it is. Completely back. No football to get in the way, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of, you know, guys, there were a bunch of blowouts over the weekend. I mean, the Lakers beat the Nuggets by 23. The Knicks got blown out twice. All right. And that's kind of a big deal. So we were trying to wrap our head around how to talk about this stuff. And we were thinking some of these might mean something. Some of them might mean nothing. And one or two of them might mean everything. So let's start with that Lakers Nuggets game the other night. The Lakers won the game by 23. Luca's out there running the offense. Luca and LeBron. I mean, LeBron is legitimately playing like a top five player right now. And he has been for, I don't know, the last six weeks. It's kind of absurd. We were saying, and I in particular have been saying that the Nuggets are back. I think the Nug nuggets have a really good shot at winning a title, |
| 2:17.7 | even though we doubted Christian Brown being able to step into the starting lineup and |
| 2:21.7 | make an impact. |
| 2:22.4 | But they've looked so good. |
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