Jimmy Butler returns to Miami in a game where the Warriors really struggle, is there worry in San Francisco? Es Baraheni and Andrew Schlecht discuss Damian Lillard being out with a blood clot, and how it could affect the Bucks. Then the guys do a “Moments Draft” from the night before including a fun airball, Thunder making history, Keegan Murray and much more. Then in Part 2, Anthony Slater of the Athletic joins to discuss the Warriors playing the Heat and the return of Jimmy Butler. Plus, how worried are the Warriors about the Playoff race down the stretch?Host: Es BaraheniWith: Andrew Schlecht and Anthony SlaterExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moodyhttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily. Coming up, some bad news for Damian Lillard and the Bucs. Myself and Andrew Schleck play a game of Moments of the Night. And Anthony Slater comes on the show to talk about Jimmy Butler's return to Miami. The Warriors got smoked. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Andrew. Good morning. Crazy, crazy night as usual. Basketball always great.
We unfortunately got some pretty bad news out the gate for tonight, though. And that was that Damian Lillard had has been sustained basically deep, deep injuries.
vein thrombosis I want to get that right because it's essentially a blood clot that was found in his calf and he's out indefinitely for it he missed three games with a calf strain so the Bucks basically found out that this is something more serious obviously all the best wishes to Dame and obviously the Bucks situation is really tough but from Sam Amick and Eric name of the athletic they both reported that there is some optimism that Dame is going to come back this season obviously
We'll see what happens there. We've seen, obviously, numerous cases this season of the similar thing. Victor Weminyama got ruled out this season. Asar Thompson had to deal with it throughout the year and came back second half of the season. Christian Coloco, another example, who missed all of last season but now came back and is playing for the Lakers.
So it's obviously one of those common things, but it's unfortunate for the Bucs because – Man, they've had some really, really unlucky injuries over the last couple of seasons between Damon Giannis last year, Giannis the year before with the heat run to the finals. It's just it's unfortunate from the Bucs side of things.
Yeah, and I don't know how many more years the Bucs can have disappointing losses like this in the playoffs. I mean, if you can't play in round one. Like they'll be against Indiana, most likely. Sure. Yeah. And like, that's a tough matchup. The Pacers are a good team. They're playing really good basketball right now. And you need Damian Lillard to win games. You just absolutely do.
So it's, it's a bummer, but it's, it's good that he's taking care of himself. Absolutely. Hopefully he can come back and just best wishes to Dame and his family.
Absolutely. Yeah. And Chris Haynes did report that like, you know, him and the Bucks are taking this seriously and that he's in, well, you know, kind of good spirits through this whole situation. So definitely hope everything is okay for Dame. Okay. So crazy night in the NBA. A lot of stuff happened as it usually does in the association.
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