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Pistons cooked? + Nuggets Survive

4/28/202631 min

Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the Orlando Magic winning the pivotal game four in their series with the Pistons, the Pistons lack of adjustments, and Cooper Flagg's Rookie of the Year win. Then, Jon Krawczynski joins the show after the Wolves lose game five of their series with the Nuggets to discuss Minnesota's loss and their best chance to win game six.

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Host: Dave DuFour

With: Es Baraheni and Jon Krawczynski

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Producer: Alex Oliver

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Clips

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3-1 context with key injuries
What actually swung Game 5
How Wolves win Game 6
McDaniels embraces the smoke

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Dave DuFour· Host0:00

    [funky music] Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 28th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFor here with S. Perry Henning. Coming up, the Magic take a 3-1 lead after another win over the Pistons. Cooper Flagg's the Rookie of the Year, and John Krasinski is here to talk about the Wolves' loss to the Nuggets. [funky music] Good morning, everybody. What is up? S, how are you, buddy?

  2. Es Baraheni· Host0:26

    Man, I am doing well for a guy who lives very close to Detroit right now. [laughs] Not a great time to be a Pistons fan.

  3. Dave DuFour· Host0:34

    How about, uh, how about those Orlando Magic?

  4. Es Baraheni· Host0:36

    Yeah.

  5. Dave DuFour· Host0:36

    Just absolutely making us all look like fools- Mm-hmm ... for predicting that they were gonna not even make it out of the playoff.

  6. Es Baraheni· Host0:44

    For, for cr- almost predicting their demise. You know, everybody was, I mean, us included, two weeks ago were talking about how the Orlando Magic were the laughing stock of the NBA.

  7. Dave DuFour· Host0:56

    Yeah.

  8. Es Baraheni· Host0:56

    Right? Uh, Jamahl Mosley gonna get fired. What are the Magic gonna do next? Are they gonna blow it up and split up Franz Wagner and Paolo Banchero? And just like that, they're now up 3-1 against the number one seed Detroit Pistons, looking to be the seventh eight seed in NBA history to beat a number one seed. Uh, I, I couldn't have expected this to happen. I genuinely did not expect this.

  9. Dave DuFour· Host1:21

    Can I, can I get crazy for a second before we talk about this game?

  10. Es Baraheni· Host1:24

    Yeah.

  11. Dave DuFour· Host1:24

    There's a, there's a world where the Orlando Magic are in the Eastern Conference finals.

  12. Es Baraheni· Host1:29

    Yes.

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