Thunder lose again + Steve Kerr's last season?
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita react to the Thunder losing their third game of the season, the Timberwolves as big game risers, and the Rockets and Nuggets building rivalry. Then, the gang discusses Zena's interview with Steve Kerr for The Athletic Show and whether this will be the end of the road for the Warriors.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Zena Keita
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 22nd, 2025. I'm Dave DeFour here with Zena Keda and Esperi. |
| 0:16.2 | Coming up, ooh, are the Thunder frauds? They dropped another game, guys. I don't know. We've got to look into it. Rockets and Nuggets is shaping up like a real rivalry. And we're going to talk about Zina's interview with Steve Kerr for The Athletic Show. Good morning, everybody. What's up, guys? Good to see you. We had a good weekend. Long time no see you guys. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, I know. It's been a minute, huh? Yeah. I was excited to see you guys, though. It's been a couple |
| 0:43.1 | days. You know, we were hanging out all last week. Had a great time at the NBA Cup. You know, |
| 0:47.7 | I was worried about the Knicks and Spurs and us having NBA Cup hangovers. |
| 1:02.1 | But, man, this was a really good weekend of basketball, including, all right, maybe the Thunder are hungover from Vegas. |
| 1:08.3 | Guys, look, not to hit the panic button, but they've dropped two of their last three. |
| 1:10.2 | They're struggling a little bit, guys. |
| 1:12.5 | Okay, let's be real here. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah, there might be something to say, if you're going to go with the fraud stuff, that's crazy. Yeah. They're not frauds, but there definitely is a little bit of fatigue maybe, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're seeing from the NBA Cup, but we'll see. Yeah. I would say this. |
| 1:27.6 | Look, they lose a game against the Timberwolves, |
| 1:29.2 | second night of a back-to-back, |
| 1:27.6 | and the wolves have been really good. see. I would say this. Look, they lose a game against the Timberwolves, |
| 1:29.1 | second night of a back-to-back. And the wolves have been really good lately. |
| 1:32.1 | And I think that, you know, being full strength like they have been, |
| 1:35.2 | Anthony Edwards just hit so many big shots and made huge plays, |
| 1:40.1 | actually on both ends. |
| 1:41.1 | There was that sequence where he gets the block, |
| 1:43.3 | hits the big step back three, |
| 1:45.7 | and then picks Shea, Gildjus Alexander's dribble and ends the game. That's how you close the |
| 1:52.1 | door on a team like OKC. So it was a huge win for the wolves. I don't want to really just focus on the |
| 1:58.0 | thunder losing. But I will say, they have looked like, you know, hey, teams are able to meet their level of |
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