Thunder roll Lakers + Luka injured
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Pistons continued success without Cade Cunningham and the Hornets winning their 41st win of the season. Then, Andrew Schlecht joins the show after the Thunder demolished the Lakers to talk about Shai's MVP run, Luka's injured hamstring, and the Lakers playoff concerns.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Bahareni and Andrew Schlecht
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 3rd, 2026. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Hennie. |
| 0:06.9 | Coming up, the Pistons somehow keep winning. |
| 0:09.9 | The Hornets clinched a 500 record. |
| 0:12.2 | And Andrew Schwegg's here to talk about the Thunder demolishing the Lakers. |
| 0:19.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:21.1 | What is up as kind of a good game last night, man. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, everybody was so excited to see the new look contending Los Angeles Lakers go up against the Oklahoma City Thunder and to add insult to absolute injury. |
| 0:37.8 | It was a tough one to be a Lakers fan, no doubt. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | Well, insult being a 40 plus point loss. |
| 0:44.6 | Injury, meaning look at dodges hurt his hamstring and had to leave the game. |
| 0:50.6 | Obviously, you know, the game was out of hand when he had to leave. |
| 0:55.2 | But this now puts him at risk of not making the 65 game threshold for postseason awards. |
| 1:03.1 | My least favorite thing to talk about. |
| 1:05.0 | It is honestly sucking any of the fun out of it. |
| 1:09.3 | Victor Wim and Yama didn't play last night. And now I have to go and do the math to see, okay, has he played enough games? How many games is he have? He left two games early, but apparently you get a couple of those. I'm sorry, it's just not, that's not for me. You know, Dave, a few months ago, I don't remember what game it was, but it was, it became a free throw battle at the end of the game. |
| 1:28.8 | And you called it paperwork. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.8 | And it feels like the end of the regular season now is paperwork because of the 65 game rule. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.5 | You know, you have to focus on how many games is a guy played. |
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