What is wrong with the Cleveland Cavaliers?
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Fred Katz discuss the Knicks NBA Cup championship, bannergate, and the problems with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Then, the gang discusses Oklahoma City's dominance and the effect on the trade deadline.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Fred Katz
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 19th, 2025. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Fred Katz and Esperi. |
| 0:16.2 | We're going to talk about the Knicks winning the cup because it means more. |
| 0:19.6 | Talk about the calves and what's wrong with them and are the thunder going to kill the trade deadline. |
| 0:28.6 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:31.9 | We're home from Vegas, NBA Cup excitement. |
| 0:35.5 | Fred Katz, we didn't see you in Vegas. |
| 0:38.3 | You didn't. No. You didn't. |
| 0:39.1 | No. |
| 0:39.4 | You didn't. |
| 0:40.2 | You don't respect the Cup? |
| 0:42.6 | Honestly, I think it's a little invoked to defile the Cup is this. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm kind of pro defiling the Cup. |
| 0:49.9 | Oh, so wrong. |
| 0:51.5 | Brown, we respect the Cup. |
| 0:53.6 | There's been a lot of defiling the cup the last couple days on this show, you know? Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, Josh Hart defile the Cup celebration. So why can't I defile all the Cup? That's tough with true. Well, all right, let's talk about the Knicks. They did just win the NBA cup uh that was a really fun |
| 1:13.4 | game did they there will never be proof well do we want to start with that how come they're not |
| 1:18.5 | going to hang the banner and is this going to open up the door for like like the lakers are going to |
| 1:23.0 | take that thing down right so i'm going to take you just through the timeline okay i'm not going to tell you why they're not going to hang it i'm going to do it i'm going to do So I'm going to take you just through the timeline, okay? |
| 1:29.4 | I'm not going to tell you why they're not going to hang it. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm just going to take you through the timeline. |
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