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Durant & Beal return to crush Lakers | What is wrong with the Timberwolves?
27 Nov 2024
Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal return from injury to blowout the Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Cup group play. The Milwaukee Bucks continue their steady stretch, in spite of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence, with a win over the Miami Heat. The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski joins Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Timberwolves loss to the Houston Rockets and the bad vibes in Minnesota. Then, the gang discusses a potential pivot for the Pelicans and action movies.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Jon KrawczynskiExecutive 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 November 27th, 2024. Coming up, Kevin Durant is back. Looks pretty good. The Suns missed him big time. We got a tale of the Twin Cities and last night it was the worst of times. So we got John Krasinski in here and Zena and I are going to talk about whether or not the Pelicans should blow it up. Yes. Yes. They need to just tank.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. It was good to see Kevin Durant last night. Zena, how about that? Absolutely. He looked so good. Yeah, both us and the Suns, right? We love to see him. No Giannis for the Bucs, so I was worried we were going to have a dud of a night. But KD back for the Suns. And Zena, immediately everything falls into place. Him and Bradley Beal back on the court.
They've got their full starting unit out there for only like the fourth time all year. And what do you know? They blow out the Lakers 127 to 100. The three guys, you know, Booker plays the most minutes, plays 34 minutes. I think only 27 for Beal, 30 for KD. So just a nice, easy night for everybody, which is kind of what we want for the Suns, right?
Like this is a team that's built for the playoffs. They should be crushing teams like the Lakers that can't really score.
that's exactly what you want is your big three being able to come in, handle business, and then sit down in the fourth quarter and allow the young guys to cook. And that's exactly what happened. I mean, this is probably the best iteration of a big three living like right now. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Like there's not, there's not, there's few teams that have been able to bring in a new talent, a big name talent and work it out. And the funny thing is, Their move actually had nothing to do with the big three that was already there. It was about Tyus Jones coming in and becoming the thread between the three of them and being able to have him be the floor setter with this team.
And not, you know, not to put anything away from the big three, but there's something to be said about their rookies too. Ryan Dunn and Oso Iguodaro have been so solid of presences and they play well. so much older than they are just being responsible with the ball and making the right decision.
And I'm sure that that is a byproduct of being around these three superstars in Beal, Booker and Durant.
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