Wolves handle Thunder | Roundball Rock with John Tesh
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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Summary
Stephen Curry scored 27 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 105-98 win over the Houston Rockets. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to Jimmy Butler’s fit so far, the Wolves big win over the Thunder, and the latest injury news for Daniel Gafford and the Mavericks. Then, musician John Tesh joins the show to discuss nostalgia, how he came up with “Roundball Rock”, and a live performance.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni & John Tesh
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.1 | Coming up, more bad news for the Mavericks. |
| 0:12.2 | The Thunder lost their 10th game, and the Warriors picked up a big win heading into the All-Star break. |
| 0:17.3 | And somehow, unbelievably, our special guest, John Tesh, is going to play roundball rock. |
| 0:26.9 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Actually, good night, Zena. |
| 0:34.5 | Zena post game after the Warriors there in the office at nbc uh zena how's it |
| 0:40.6 | going how was the game game was not pretty but the warriors pulled it out and that's really what |
| 0:46.4 | matters is you close out the all-star break yeah all right well we'll get into we'll get to that in a second |
| 0:51.3 | because we got to talk about the jimmy butler experience. But we got some news right before we went to record tonight. |
| 0:57.9 | Dallas Maverick Center, Daniel Gafford's going to be out for about six weeks. |
| 1:02.1 | He suffered a grade three right MCL sprain. |
| 1:06.8 | You know, we saw him leave that game the other day. |
| 1:08.5 | Zina, obviously the Mavericks are kind of having a rough run of it since the Luca Dantja's trade. And even before that, you know, we saw him leave that game the other day. Zina, obviously the Mavericks are kind of having a rough run of it since the Luca Donchish trade. And even before that, you know, they lost Derek lively. And we don't know exactly when he's going to be back. Anthony Davis looks like he's going to be out for at least a month. And now no Gafford. So just no centers for this team. And somehow they still won the game last night and without Kyrie Irving. |
| 1:30.1 | So, you know, like on one hand, listen, this is this is bad news for their prospects heading into the playoffs. |
| 1:36.2 | This is a team that's trying to get themselves out of the play in. |
| 1:39.2 | And I think at full health, they probably felt like they still had a good chance to compete come playoff time. |
| 1:44.9 | But Zina, they're still somehow pulling these wins out and it's just desperation basketball. |
| 1:51.6 | You can't root against them. |
| 1:53.6 | You can't. |
| 1:54.3 | And the thing about it is, like, if we remember earlier this season when Luca was still on the team, |
| 1:59.0 | I know, it feels like so long ago. But when Luca was still on the team. I know it feels like so long ago, but when |
| 2:01.1 | Luca was still on the team and was hurt, the math were still winning. They had a winning |
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