Donovan Mitchell leads the Cavs past the Celtics and Fred VanVleet leads the Rockets past the Thunder in a wild Sunday night of NBA basketball. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni are your guides for all the NBA action from the weekend, including these 2 games. The breakfast club then discuss the best players from the weekend and form their All Weekend Teams. Finally the crew discuss their picks for the week and give an update on the NBA Cup.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Es BaraheniExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodySubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 2nd, 2024. Coming up, the Cavs strike back, the Rockets silence the Thunder, and we're going to hit our best of the weekend with our all-weekend team. And, you know, it's another NBA Cup week, so we're going to talk some NBA Cup as S. Hardy interrupts me with the timeout.
good morning everybody good morning zina good morning s doing his best will hardy impersonation there yeah uh guys great weekend of hoops sunday was amazing had me glued you know to the tv all day long just so happens that we've just hit the quarter way mark of the regular season and we got marquee matchups on the sunday afternoon we got the number one team
and the number two team in both conferences facing off against each other. We had the Cavs and Celtics rematch, which, you know, the Cavs, they lose their first game last week to the Celtics. They knocked them off, ending that undefeated streak to start the season. Guys, this game was electric. No Jalen Brown, no Derek White. We thought we were going to get a dud.
And S, thanks to Donovan Mitchell, we got one of the best fourth quarters that I think we've seen all year. 20 points from him in that comeback fourth quarter that they had. But this game, Again, Cavs Celtics is much CTV.
It's I I need it in the playoffs. I want it as a playoff series. It's definitely one of the ones where like I've already marked down on my little notebook. But yeah, this game was was great. And I think through three quarters, the conversation that I was having with myself was, wow, this is the Jason Tatum game. Right. It's coming together and he doesn't need Jalen Brown or Derek White.
He can do it all himself. And and for what it's worth, he had a really great game. I thought like the manipulation in the mid range area, the playmaking, it was it was looking good, especially in the fourth quarter. There was like a couple of fadeaway jump shots that he had hunting out Darius Garland. That was really good. But it was the Donovan Mitchell show in the fourth quarter. 20 points.
He had that crazy crossover against Drew Holiday, the little hee hee. You know, the snatch back. That was I think I got out my seat on that one. That was beautiful. But he just took over. And I think for what it's worth, the Cavs, the way that they kind of summoned up the energy to get that win in the fourth quarter, it was more important to them.
having lost to the Hawks on Friday than it was to the Celtics. And I think you noticed that in the fourth too, like they just wanted it more.
Yeah. And the Hawks are just world beaters. So, you know, just beating the Cavs twice, beat the Celtics before. That's your Hawks right there. That's right. Yeah. Zena, look, you know where we're at now. They're 18 and three Cavs. They just, this is a huge win over the Celtics in a marquee game. As we just, even despite NBA TV on Sunday, in spite of the injuries,
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