What is the Warriors' Ceiling?
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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Summary
The Warriors traded for Jimmy Butler at the deadline and Draymond Green declared the Warriors are going to win the title. Zena Keita and Marcus Thompson discuss what the ceiling of the Warriors is, and if they have enough to actually get through the West. They discuss the top end talent of Jimmy, Curry and Draymond and if the young players on the roster can help get them where they need to go.
Host: Zena Keita
With: Marcus Thompson
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to a special edition of the NBA Daily. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Zena Keda, and I'm joined by one of my favorite people in the world, Marcus Thompson. |
| 0:15.5 | And I don't know if you guys heard over the weekend, but a particular player from a particular team that Marcus and I are very well |
| 0:22.2 | acquainted with had some choice words about the future of that team. Marcus, did you hear these |
| 0:29.7 | words that I'm referring to? Yeah, I really miss what Brandon Pajinsky said. What did he say? |
| 0:37.6 | It wasn't Brandon. It wasn't Brandon. |
| 0:39.1 | It wasn't Brandon. |
| 0:39.9 | If anything, it's Brandon's, like, mentor, the guy that he looks up to or wants to be like, |
| 0:44.6 | Draymond Green, always known to be, you know, a bold figurehead for the Warriors, made some really big claims as he was part of the TNT. |
| 0:54.3 | Big claims. Like, part of the TNT. Big claims. |
| 0:55.5 | Like the biggest claims ever. |
| 0:58.7 | Well, Steph Curry, you know, alluded to how big they were too in his post-all-Star |
| 1:03.6 | game press conference. |
| 1:05.7 | But Dremont, I'll go ahead and read the quote. |
| 1:08.1 | But at some point, as he's explaining where he thinks the Warriors |
| 1:11.2 | are going to be, he said, I'm sorry, I said I think we're going to win a championship, but I lied. |
| 1:16.9 | We are going to win the championship. |
| 1:21.1 | Boom. |
| 1:21.8 | Now, of course, he was referencing where the Warriors stand since Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler |
| 1:27.1 | the third, join the Warriors. |
| 1:29.6 | They've been three and one since. They closed out a road stint with a win against the Houston |
| 1:33.9 | Rockets before they went into All-Star Weekend. Three-and-one looks good. Definitely looks a lot |
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