Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
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Summary
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama will miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with a blood clot in his shoulder. Dave DuFour and Zena react to the news about Wemby, the Knicks overtime win, and the Denver Nuggets rise up the west standings. Then, the Athletic’s Sam Amick joins the show to breakdown the timeline for Wembanyama’s diagnosis, the fallout, and whether the Spurs will be searching for a new coach.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita & Sam Amick
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily coming up. |
| 0:10.1 | Victor Women Yama is out for the year. |
| 0:12.4 | We're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:13.6 | We got Sam Amick coming in to give us behind the scenes on that. |
| 0:17.3 | The Knicks win in overtime and the Bucks. |
| 0:20.4 | They got Yonis back back and let's see how that |
| 0:22.4 | Kyle Kuzma fits working out. |
| 0:30.4 | Good morning everybody. Good morning, Zena. Good morning, Dave. A little bit of bad news to start |
| 0:36.5 | the day. As you guys probably know, if you're listening, Victor Women Yama has been diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. |
| 0:45.5 | He's going to be out for the season. |
| 0:47.6 | This is awful news for people like us, Sina, that watch and love basketball every single night. |
| 0:53.6 | The good news is he's going to be back at the start of next season. The Spurs expect him to be completely healthy. This is just a bump in the road. So that's the great news. But in the short term, Zina, we have to adjust to life without Victor Women Yama for the rest of the season. Yeah. This is, this sucks. Like for basketball fans, not only for the |
| 1:13.1 | San Antonio Spurs, but universally, like this guy was the face of the league to be, right? When you |
| 1:19.3 | think about what Victor Wemianama, you talk about levitational player, a guy that's crafty, that's wily, |
| 1:24.1 | that does these methodical moves on the court and blows your mind because he's |
| 1:29.1 | seven four. It's like you're not supposed to be able to do that in this lanky body that you've got |
| 1:33.8 | and he entertains us all with everything that he does out on the floor. And it's really |
| 1:37.7 | unfortunate that now that has come to an end. But you're right in that it's good news that this |
| 1:43.9 | was caught |
| 1:44.4 | because deep vein thrombosis is an incredibly scary thing that if not caught could have |
| 1:50.0 | fatal circumstances. So it is really great that they were able to catch that, notice that his |
| 1:54.8 | breath was a little bit short and said, okay, let's do some tests and figure this out for |
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