Why the Clippers didn’t want Paul George | Celtics potential sale
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita break down the night of NBA basketball and the Tyrese Maxey injury for the Sixers. Then the breakfast club is joined by Senior writer at the Athletic Sam Amick to discuss the Clippers' new arena, Paul George’s return, and how the Clippers would rather have nothing than Paul George. In the final segment, Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic stops by to discuss the potential sale of the Celtics and how the new TV deal could affect NBA fans.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Sam Amick and Mike Vorkunov
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 8th, 2024. |
| 0:11.6 | Coming up, the Bucks made a lineup change, and it worked. |
| 0:15.2 | Paul George, he went back to the Clippers, and Sam Amick was there, and he's here to tell you about it. |
| 0:20.0 | And then we've got Mike Borkinoff to tell us about a potential sale of the Boston Celtics |
| 0:24.4 | and why it's so unique. |
| 0:35.4 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:37.1 | Good morning, Zena. Pretty slow night, everybody. Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:38.9 | Pretty slow night, Thursday night, Zena, compared to the crazy Monday and Wednesday. |
| 0:46.6 | I mean, I feel like I just caught my breath tonight. |
| 0:50.2 | What we've got to watch out for, unfortunately, is another name added to the injury report for the 76ers. |
| 0:57.2 | We saw Tyrese Maxey left that Paul George return game against the Clippers that the Clippers won convincingly. |
| 1:04.0 | He left with a hamstring injury. |
| 1:05.8 | Looks like he's going to be out a little bit, at least two weeks. |
| 1:09.0 | And the Sixers right now, they're one and six. They've yet to have all three guys play together. They only got two games with Paul George and Maxie. Joel Embed comes back next Tuesday for that first NBA Cup game against the Knicks. They've got a bottom five offense. Their defense is not much better than that, Zena. And they really could not have had a worst start to the year. |
| 1:29.1 | And this just compounds that. |
| 1:30.7 | I mean, how are they going to build chemistry? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, and this has been the discussion all season long of the fact that Tyrese |
| 1:37.4 | has had to carry such a load without the superstars that beside him in Embed and George. |
| 1:43.0 | Knowing that he's already at a usage rate of about 30%. |
| 1:45.9 | That's a lot to carry on his own. |
| 1:48.4 | He's had several games this season where he's playing 41, 48 minutes, even that overtime |
| 1:53.3 | win, right? |
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