Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for Monday, February 23rd. I am Zena Keda,

joined by S. Barahini. And today we're going to be talking a little bit about what happened

over the weekend with Cleveland and OKC, OKC showcasing their system and how it works.

And we're also going to get into the Knicks,

fighting their way back against the Rockets,

the Warriors surprising the Nuggets at home.

And there's a bit of the big injury down in Phoenix.

Let's get into it.

S, what's that man? down in Phoenix. Let's get into it.

S, what's that, man?

Hello. Hi, Zena. How's it going? How was your weekend?

It was great. It feels a little empty out here without Dave's starting our week right now. But, you know, he is taking some much-deserved time off.

And, you know, speaking- I will say he is missing out because this is a good time to watch some NBA basketball.

I was going to say, I was going to say it's right after the All Star break.

People are feeling like, all right, we're trying to make the play or the push for the playoffs.

And we're going to talk to Andrew Schlect about the big game that was on Sunday, Cleveland versus OKC. But before we get into that, let's go ahead and talk about the big game that was at night. The Lakers and Celtics. Speaking of trying to make a push for the playoffs, we know the Celtics have been in great position in the East. In terms of just the way they're playing, their system, they're winning games. They're playing great offense, defense, Jalen Brown is making that MVP case. The way this game was publicized as

was like, it's historic. It's going to be the big matchup, the Lakers, Celtics, it's massive.

And Pat Riley was getting a statue. Like this was huge. And somehow the game ended with the

score of 111 to 89.

And no, no, no, no.

I don't want to say that it was the Celtics amazing defense.

S, it was more just a lackadaisical effort on the Lakers part.

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