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Upside down night in the NBA + LeBron keeps streak alive

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react a night of bad losses for good teams. Then, Hunter Patterson joins the gang after the Pistons win over the Hawks to discuss their new look closing lineup, the connection between Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren, and Detroit’s defensive identity.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Zena Keita and Hunter Patterson

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody


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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 2nd, 2025.

0:11.0

I'm Dave DeFour here with Zena Keda coming up.

0:14.0

Last night was upset night.

0:16.0

A bunch of good teams lost to bad teams.

0:18.0

We're going to talk about that.

0:19.0

And we have Hunter Patterson on to talk

0:21.1

about the Pistons, holding off the hawks and a big win. Good morning, everybody. Good morning,

0:26.6

Zena. Hope you recovered from the weird night last night. It was very weird. Whatever you thought

0:34.2

was going to happen, flip that on his head. I wanted to say, you know, Thanksgiving hangover games or something like that.

0:42.2

But no, all of these teams have played since Thanksgiving, including the Rockets beating.

0:49.1

I mean, they destroyed the Utah Jazz yesterday on Sunday before just looking completely out of sorts for most

0:57.7

of the game and losing to the jazz unexpectedly. If we were to rank the losses for the Rockets,

1:05.3

the Lakers, the Bucks, and the Nuggets from last night, Zeno, who had the worst loss to you who i i think i got to go

1:13.8

with the bucks i got to go with the bucks well it's the wizards yeah yeah you just got to look at the

1:18.4

timeline here so they they lose seven in a row and they beat the nets and you're like okay they're

1:23.6

going to come up come up here they're about to play the Nets. They're going to Washington Wizards.

1:28.8

These are the two worst teams in the league right now. This is where you get your confidence back. It's the get right games. It was the get right games, exactly. And the fact that Washington had two wins on the season, and they didn't have Alexar available to play. So it was like, oh, bet.

1:44.8

That's a lock-in game.

1:46.6

Scheduled L for the Wizard. And they didn't have Alexar available to play. So it was like, oh, bet.

1:44.9

That's a lock-in game.

1:46.7

Scheduled L for the Wizards.

1:48.7

And what I love, the chef's kiss about the way that the Wizards won this game, it was behind the old heads.

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