Thunder; Cavs first to 30 wins | Kawhi Leonard is back!
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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Summary
The Oklahoma City Thunder won their 15th straight game while holding the Boston Celtics to 27 2nd half points. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni discuss the Thunder as the best team in basketball, their recent stretch of games, and their upcoming showdown with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Then, the gang discusses Kawhi Leonard’s comeback, Victor Wembanyama vs Nikola Jokić, the Bucks woes, and their favorite landing spots for Jimmy Butler.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 6, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up, the Thunder and Cavaliers seem like there aren't a mission to meet in the finals. |
| 0:15.9 | Victor Women Yama might be the best player in the league by the end of this year, which is shocking. |
| 0:21.8 | And Jimmy Butler is definitely getting traded. |
| 0:34.3 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:35.8 | Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:36.7 | Good morning, S. |
| 0:37.8 | Another amazing action-packed weekend in the NBA. |
| 0:42.3 | It seems like this is this season. |
| 0:44.8 | We have had more marquee weekend games on Sunday competing with football. |
| 0:50.7 | Yes. |
| 0:51.3 | The Thunder and Celtics is a game that, I mean, a lot of people thought this is the finals preview. Yep. And they're going head to head in the afternoon with the NFL, you know, on NBA TV. And we were texting a little bit in our, in our chat, just wondering, why isn't this a national TV game? Like, why isn't this on prime time? I can't figure it out. |
| 1:11.0 | But the Thunder guys, man, they gave a primetime performance. |
| 1:14.6 | In the second half of the game, they held the Celtics to only 27 points. |
| 1:19.2 | I think everyone is probably saying the same thing this morning. |
| 1:23.9 | You know, Monday morning, we all kind of had the same idea, right? |
| 1:26.5 | We've had a chance to sleep on the entire weekend. |
| 1:29.1 | And I think when you watch what the Thunder have done in the 15 straight wins that they've got, |
| 1:34.7 | what they did against the Knicks the other night and then what they did against the Celtics |
| 1:38.8 | last night, Zena, you can't help but start thinking a new best team in the league just dropped. Like, this is it. Oh, yeah. And the Thunder haven't lost to a team in the Eastern Conference yet, which is impressive. I mean, the NBA Cup, you know, you know. Game doesn't count. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. |
| 2:02.6 | We were there, but it never happened. |
| 2:04.6 | No, I mean, there's, this is something to be said about just like their resilience. |
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