Wolves shock Spurs + Knicks rout Sixers
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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Summary
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Timberwolves upset win over the Spurs, Victor Wembanyama's block record, and the Knicks humming offense. Then, the Athletic's Detroit Pistons beat writer Hunter Patterson joins the show to preview the Pistons second round series with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Hunter Patterson
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 5th, 2026. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Dave DeFore. Here was Zena Keda coming up. |
| 0:06.8 | The second round kicks off with an upset the wolves beat the spurs. |
| 0:10.8 | The Knicks blew out the Sixers and we've got Hunter Patterson here to preview Pistons Cavs. |
| 0:22.8 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome back, Zina. |
| 0:25.5 | Bonjour. |
| 0:28.2 | How was your time away? |
| 0:29.3 | It was wonderful. |
| 0:30.5 | Much needed. |
| 0:31.6 | Needed a little break. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm not going to lie, though, Dave. I came back with neck and back spasms. |
| 0:36.8 | And I was thinking it might have been the flight. |
| 0:39.5 | And then actually reviewing all of these games, it had to be the NBA. |
| 0:43.9 | Because what? |
| 0:46.2 | Boston, Denver. |
| 0:48.2 | What? |
| 0:49.7 | It was a lot going on. |
| 0:51.0 | But I'm happy to be back just in time for round two to kick off. And I think we got one good game at last night. I think that's the one we're going to start with. Yeah, we did. I mean, listen, if you're a Knicks fan, you're probably pretty ecstatic. And we'll talk about that. Before we get to the games. If you're a Knicks fan, you got two games, good games. Yeah. Before we get to the games, I got to give a shout out to Pablo Torre and the entire crew from Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 1:18.0 | Congratulations for winning a Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers, Kawhi Leonard, aspiration, and maybe one day we will get the |
| 1:31.1 | results of the NBA's investigation. But congratulations to Pablo Torre. Wow, like we're, |
| 1:36.5 | we're very proud of this. So shout out to you guys. You do great work. And if somehow you're |
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