Will Jayson Tatum return for the Celtics this season?
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni discuss the protracted finish to the game between the Rockets and Clippers and Steph Curry's return for the Warriors. Then, Jay King joins the show to breakdown the Celtics loss to the Bucks, Jaylen Brown's production, and whether Jayson Tatum will actually come back this season.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Jay King
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 12th, 2025. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Esperi. |
| 0:15.2 | Coming up, the Rockets beat the Clippers, but man, it took a long time to finish that game. |
| 0:20.1 | And Steph Curry is coming back. |
| 0:21.4 | We're going to talk about his impact on the Warriors. |
| 0:24.6 | And Jake King is here to talk about the Celtics and how they've been winning, except for last night. |
| 0:32.5 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:34.4 | Good morning, yes. |
| 0:35.3 | I love when we book a guest because a team's been hot or yeah doing |
| 0:39.8 | something interesting and it's just like the NBA daily curse hasn't been going crazy this year |
| 0:44.8 | but but we we unfortunately got one at jay well we got the double whammy on the cup night the other |
| 0:50.3 | night um because we yes both the losers and um hey, we, we're just rolling the dice |
| 0:56.8 | out here. |
| 0:57.6 | Speaking of, all right, as look, we watch a ton of basketball every single night. |
| 1:02.9 | And we've talked about watchability this season. |
| 1:06.4 | And I don't want to be a guy who's like complaining about refereeing because like I it's hard to ref reviews are going to happen. |
| 1:13.7 | But what happened at the end of the Rockets Clippers game last night is just egregious. |
| 1:19.2 | It was insane. |
| 1:19.6 | You know, these games are already taking forever. |
| 1:24.3 | That game last night, the final 17 seconds, took 17 minutes in real life to finish. |
| 1:32.6 | They were at 27 seconds left with about two and a half minutes left in Celtics bucks. |
| 1:38.4 | And the press conferences were done by the time that game was over. |
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