Warriors Thrive and Lakers Panic Time? + Game 2 Adjustments
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Game 1 of the the NBA Playoffs is in the books, and Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni discuss the Lakers big loss to the Wolves, the Warriors thriving in Houston, Boston, OKC and Cleveland’s dominance and much more. The NBA Daily crew discuss big takeaways from each game, adjustments that need to be made, and if Game 1 changed any of the opinions on any series.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Bareheni and Zena Keita
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:41.2 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:43.0 | Coming up, the playoffs are here. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to break down every single matchup and give our takeaways and adjustments for game two. |
| 0:55.9 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:57.5 | Good morning, guys. |
| 0:58.4 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:59.6 | Morning. Do people actually still say happy Monday? |
| 1:02.4 | Is that like a thing? |
| 1:03.1 | There's no such thing. |
| 1:04.0 | I think people know that's a lie. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.8 | Well, hey, guys, it was a great weekend. |
| 1:10.4 | You know, WrestleMania weekend, NBA playoffs opening up. |
| 1:14.8 | I want to run through these series because obviously we just got, you know, |
| 1:19.3 | eight game ones and there's lots to talk about. |
| 1:22.4 | So let's just jump right in and get to it. |
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