Chapter 1: What happened during LeBron James' scoring streak and its end?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 5th, 2025. I'm Dave DeFore here with S. Baraheni. Coming up, S. was at the Lakers-Raptors game, which I think was the best game of the year. We're going to talk about that. And then I sat down with Law Murray to talk about the latest with the Clippers and their next steps. Good morning, everybody. What's up, S? How about that game?
What a game. My goodness.
Chapter 2: How did Rui Hachimura's buzzer beater impact the game against the Raptors?
That was awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah. Amazing game. We'll get to that in a second. S, I know you're a big soccer fan. Yes, I am, actually. You guys call it soccer up there? I don't know.
We do call it soccer up there, but my Liverpool fandom, I have to say footy.
Chapter 3: What insights did Es Baraheni share about the Lakers-Raptors game experience?
You know, football. That's the way I go.
Well, in case you've been living under a rock, the draw for next summer's World Cup is Friday. At 12 Eastern, 5 GMT. That's Greenwich Mean Time. So if you're in London, 5 p.m. in the evening. And you can watch the Athletic FC's podcast live stream reacting to all the fallout immediately after the draw is wrapped on their YouTube channel.
Guys, I mean, look, you know, we've been going live way more often. This is a huge, massive event.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Austin Reeves' performance without Luka Doncic?
So go and check out the Athletic FC, the best soccer podcast in the world. So...
Yeah, I can't wait. I need I need to see where Canada falls. You know, hopefully not in the group of death. Yeah. Very excited. Obviously, the World Cup is going to be here in Toronto for the first time ever. So, yeah, it'd be a crazy summer in twenty twenty six.
I'm sure you've already got tickets.
Chapter 5: How did Scottie Barnes affect LeBron's game performance?
Speaking of you had tickets, you had tickets to Raptors Lakers, although I don't think they charge you any money. Look, the end of that game is where we're going to start because it's it's a huge deal. LeBron James makes the game-winning assist for the buzzer beater to Rui Hachimura to win the game when he was stuck at eight points, ending his 10-point scoring streak at 1,297 games.
S, you were born then, right? I was born then, yes. January 6, 2007 is when it started.
Yes, I was absolutely born then. Yeah, I was a conscious human being at that point. I will say, look, it's crazy because that number that you just mentioned, there have only been around 20 players in NBA history.
24, per our friend Sean Woodley.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of Chris Paul's situation for the Clippers?
Yeah, he looked it up. 24 players in NBA history that have even played 1,297 games. By the way, the number one song when the streak started irreplaceable by Beyonce and the biggest movie at the box office was night at the museum. The first one, Also a great movie. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, it was a good week. It was like maybe the last good week in America. I don't know.
Chapter 7: How might the Clippers navigate the upcoming trade season?
So, S, all right, look, it was a great game. And I said off the top, probably the best game of the year. Number one, I thought the game flowed great. Like it was fun to watch beyond just the back and forth of the action. It felt fun. You were there. The refs, I thought, called a really, really good game while allowing them to be physical.
um talk to me about just the game experience itself because this this game was so much fun and it wasn't national tv this was like a league pass or you know you were watching on spectrum in l.a
Look, it was an awesome game. Obviously, no Luka Doncic for the L.A.
Chapter 8: What are the potential trade targets for the Clippers this season?
Lakers who came in here. And Luka is, you know, I believe his wife is giving birth to his child. And that's excellent. Congrats to Luka and his family. But ultimately, the Lakers had to do this without him. And what happens when Luka is out for the Lakers, at least this season? It is the Austin Reeves show. He has been awesome. This was his third 40-plus point game this year.
I believe all of those have come with Luka out of the lineup. He is just unstoppable at this point as a pick-and-roll ball handler, as a shooter. And I asked Darko Ryakovic after the game because there were some frustrating free-throw calls, admittedly, throughout this game where the Raptors got frustrated at some of the calls that Austin Reeves get. But that's kind of like...
You know, he has mastered the dark arts in that aspect, right? He knows exactly how to harness the power of the force to be able to do those certain things and draw fouls. It's a gift. I honestly think the grifting aspect is a gift, and Austin Reeves does it very well. But postgame...
Postgame, Darko Ryakovic kind of mentioned, like, there are certain players in the league that will get those type of calls because of just how good they are at selling them. And it's not a disrespect to Reeves for that. It's more about, like, his ability to put himself in those positions to do that.
On top of the three-point shooting, on top of the finishing, it was a really fun game from him, and it was a very fun game from Scotty Barnes, who, despite a pretty poor Brandon Ingram effort in this game... Really tried to will the Raptors back and give them a puncher's chance, especially in that fourth quarter. Scottie was awesome.
He obviously defensively, he was part of the reason LeBron was three of, I believe, three of 15 tonight from the field. He was a major reason why LeBron struggled in this game.
Look, LeBron, we're going to start having conversations about LeBron and the way he looks. He looks old. You know, the streak could have easily ended in the last game. And there was a little bit of cheesing maybe to get him to this game. But this is two games in a row where it really is struggling. And I know, look, it's only six games back, whatever.
But he's looking pretty old compared to last season. But he's also, in my opinion, looking a little checked out. He was sitting on the bench when Austin Reeves tied the game up. That was absurd. I was so lost as to what was going on.
I think the Raptors were also lost. I thought they thought that the Lakers were going to call a timeout, and then Austin Reeves darted to the basket and got a layup. It was a really chaotic finish because neither team called a timeout for the last minute of the game. Yeah.
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