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What NBA Trade would shape the offseason? + Game 6 Preview | Morning Shoot Around

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht, Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni and Zena Keita discuss the NBA Finals, trade rumors and who a title would mean the most to.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the athletic NBA Daily's YouTube. We're live on

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YouTube every week on Wednesdays. We'd love for you to join us on our YouTube page. While you're

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at it, subscribe, like the videos.

0:21.6

Leave a comment.

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We would love that.

0:23.3

Today, we're going to talk about game six of the NBA finals, which is tomorrow, Thursday, in Indiana.

0:30.4

Very exciting.

0:31.8

We're going to talk about who the title would mean the most to if they want it.

0:35.5

And then we're going to talk about a trade that we would like to see happen sometime this summer. Maybe it could be tomorrow. Who knows? There's trades happening right now. Probably. I'm your host, Andrew Schleck, with me, Dave DeFour, which is not often that Dave is on a podcast. He's not hosting. So he just gets to come. I love it. I'm like looking at my phone right now. I'm like, wow. This is what it's like? Yep. Yes. Yes. In Acadia S. Barahenny as well, the NBA Daily Crew. Guys, game six, we'll start with Zena. Zina, what are your expectations for game six?

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They've been dramatically lowered now that Tyrese Halliburton has been predicted to potentially be out. If anything, I just feel like OKC is going to come out, feeling really good, put their final stamp on this.

1:31.0

Everything we have seen, everything we have applauded all season long is just going to be on display.

1:36.8

It's going to be like, you know, at the end of a fireworks show where they just go,

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pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, and it's just like all the fireworks all at once.

1:44.0

That's what I'm expecting out of O KC.

1:46.0

We've got more sound effects out of Zena. I know. I'm doing this. My day could not be starting out better. It's kind of awesome. I like it. I got to stop. We need Jeshua to do the same thing, right? Is this one of those scenarios where all the fireworks go off at once?

1:44.3

Is that the noise go off at once? Is that what I mean? Yeah, it's like at the, I don't know, when I was growing up in North Carolina, we went to the state fair a lot. Grand finale. One of the day, it's the grand finale. After hours of fireworks, everyone sits and it's just like an explosion of all the things you saw, every color, every stream, every everything.

2:20.5

And you're just like shocked and amazed.

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The guy, the person out on the on the barge or whatever setting the fireworks, what the way that started is the first guy that was doing that just got bored.

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He's like, oh my gosh, this is too much.

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It's going on too long.

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Let me just set them all.

2:36.5

They're going to love it if I just set these all off at once.

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