Thunder vs Spurs Episode IV: The Thunder strikes back
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Milwaukee Bucks devastating blowout loss to the Timberwolves without Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert and the rise of Peyton Watson for the Denver Nuggets. Then, Andrew Schlecht joins the show after the Thunder get revenge on Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs to discuss OKC’s gameplan and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s dominant two-way performance.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Andrew Schlecht
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, presented by Amazon Prime for January 14th, |
| 0:14.0 | 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi. Coming up, the bucks got smoked by the Timberwolvesves. This might be it for Janus. I don't know. |
| 0:23.1 | It's really bad guys. The Nuggets pick up another win and the Thunder finally beat the Spurs. |
| 0:27.9 | So we talked to Andrew Schleck about that after the game. |
| 0:32.5 | Good morning, everybody. What's going on, S? |
| 0:35.4 | Good morning, Dave. How you doing? |
| 0:37.2 | Not too bad. Pretty big game last night, |
| 0:39.5 | Thunder Spurs. How about that? I mean, listen, man, I was saying in our group chat. |
| 0:44.5 | The Empire strikes back if you get the title, by the way. Yeah. I was saying in our group chat, |
| 0:49.3 | I was like, oh, no, this, this game after that opening dunk by by Wemby on chat i was like this is going to be the |
| 0:56.8 | game that officially breaks the thunder uh obviously that didn't happen that did not happen no |
| 1:02.0 | they were resilient a resilient bunch of champions you know yeah great game though it was |
| 1:07.4 | game like we've gotten four really and even the blowout like, you know, feeling of the last two. Still, great games. Need a playoff game between these two. There's obviously a little bit of edge to both of these teams. Yeah. I won't say I won a seven game series. I just won a series. Just give me a series. I'll take five games as long as they're good like this. But after the break, |
| 1:28.4 | we have Andrew Schlicht to talk about it because he was there to witness it. |
| 1:31.6 | And I mean, again, just ridiculous game. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | But we've got to talk about the bucks. |
| 1:38.1 | The bucks are just down pretty bad right now. |
| 1:42.0 | They drop a game last night to the Timberwolves 139 to 106 now okay |
| 1:48.0 | the wolves we've talked about them they've been the best team in basketball record wise since |
| 1:52.9 | since Thanksgiving right like this is no big deal except Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert were both out |
| 1:57.9 | this needed to be a win for the Bucks. It was a home game. |
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