Knicks and Magic advance to NBA Cup Semifinals
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What happened in the NBA Cup Quarterfinals?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 10th, 2025. I'm Dave DuFour and coming up, we had NBA Cup quarterfinals action last night. The Magic beat the Heat. We got Wes Goldberg here to talk about that. The Knicks beat the Raptors. S was in Toronto, so we're going to talk to him. And I get to say the seven most exciting words on this podcast. Josh Robbins is going to Las Vegas. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Wes.
How did Desmond Bane perform in the game against the Heat?
Not a great night for the Miami Heat, who Eric Spolstra said on the bench, you guys aren't trying hard enough to get to Las Vegas. I don't know if it was an effort thing, man. Like the magic really just they had a little bit of magic last night.
They did, and they are starting to look like the Orlando Magic that we expected them to look like after a slow start. I thought what really stood out about the Magic early in the season that they weren't playing with that level of physicality, that snot factor that they just had last year that really powered their defense, and their defense obviously powered their offense. That's back, man. That is back with the Orlando Magic team. They had Miami, the older brother in Florida, at home in their arena, and they didn't let them get punked, right? This is a team, a Magic team, that is 3-0 against the Miami Heat so far this season, and a lot of the games have looked like this.
Yeah, and look, the game final score was Magic 117, Heat 108. The Magic, they are moving on to Vegas, so we're going to see them Saturday night. This game did not start the way it finished at all. I mean, the fourth quarter and the first six minutes of this game could not have been more completely opposite. The game started, Miami goes on this 15-0 run, and all of a sudden, you know, I'm sending the yikes chat to the, you know, little text to the group chat saying we might have a blowout here in an NBA cup. Maybe it doesn't mean more, but the magic really like they clawed back. the bane and bench units changed the game i thought john john isaac remembering that he's a really really high level defender uh really helped them there especially in second and third quarters um like what's your take on the magic man um bane has been so great at stirring the drink while paulo was out and and i felt like they really started to get their legs under him during that stretch and then immediately franz wagner is out but
This team has been resilient, you know, the last couple seasons now through injuries. And I'm just curious, like, what's your read on them covering a rival?
Yeah, in some ways, they have started to model the Miami Heat, right? I mean, Jamal Mosley has done such a great job completely revamping the culture of that Orlando Magic team. That is a team that is tough, that, like I said, had this little brother syndrome for years, not just in the state of Florida. They were one of the newer franchises. They made finals with Dwight Howard, and they've definitely had some success, but it's been a long time. And there was always a kind of it never works out for us type of mindset with the Orlando Magic. And Jamal Mosley walked in there and said, not anymore. We're not doing that. We're going to be tougher. We're going to be we're going to be harder working. We're going to do all that stuff that the Heat painted on their court a couple of years ago.
What adjustments do the Miami Heat need to make?
We're going to do all that stuff here. And I think in a lot of ways. They drew inspiration from their in-state rival and over the last few years have even bested them in some of those things, especially in the regular season. So that's been great. And then the Desmond Bain factor, first of all, hand and glove fit, obviously, with all the culture stuff and then the three-point shooting, you know, all that stuff is obvious. But what I find really interesting and kind of game-changing for the Magic in having acquired Desmond Bain, they now have a guy who could be their best offensive player on any given night that isn't Franz and isn't Paolo. where they didn't have that over the last few years.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the NBA Cup Quarterfinals?
0:08–0:40
2
How did Desmond Bane perform in the game against the Heat?
0:40–3:20
3
What adjustments do the Miami Heat need to make?
3:20–6:11
4
What contributed to the Magic's victory over the Heat?
6:11–7:11
5
What was the Knicks' performance like against the Raptors?
7:11–7:37
6
How did Jalen Brunson impact the Knicks' game?
7:37–8:15
7
What are the current challenges facing the Raptors?
8:15–11:06
8
What does the future hold for the Knicks and Heat this season?
11:06–28:30