Thunder win thriller + Lakers let Luka down

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

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Summary

Dave DuFour and Zena Keita break down everything from the first night of the NBA season including Ring Night from OKC, OKC’s double OT thriller, and the Warriors dominating the Lakers. Andrew Schlecht joins the crew from OKC to discuss ring night, the banner being raised, and some timeout controversy. Then Dan Woike joins to discuss the Lakers falling to Curry, Jimmy and the Warriors.

Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita, Andrew Schlecht and Dan Woike

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Dave Dufour.
0:12.2	Here with Zena Kata and Shea scored 35, the Thunderwin.
0:17.3	Traymond gets a tech.
0:18.3	We're right back.
0:19.3	The NBA's back opening night. Zeno, what do you grade the
0:22.6	NBA on NBC opening night broadcast? A plus, baby. It was ring night for the defending
0:34.0	champion Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City and in Oklahoma City in the
0:40.2	Paycom Center.
0:41.5	Our own Andrew Schleck joins us.
0:43.7	Andrew, what a game.
0:45.6	How about that for opening night?
0:47.4	This team, seven game series in the Western Conference Finals, seven game series in the
0:52.7	finals, and on opening night, free basketball,
0:56.5	double free basketball, double overtime. What a game.
1:00.6	Double O T on a school night, my man. It was a, it was a lot of fun. This game had everything.
1:08.5	It had, you had ring night, you had the first banner being raised in O KC, you had
1:13.5	Kevin Durant being in town and being booed on like almost every possession that he had the
1:18.4	ball, which I thought was maybe a bit much. I was okay with them booing him at the beginning,
1:22.9	but it was a bit much to boo him at every single possession. They were feeling themselves.
1:27.5	Yeah.
1:27.9	Then you had like, he booed them back.
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