Rockets Spurs Thriller + Kuminga’s return
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for January 21st, 2026. I'm Dave DuFour here with Espera Henney coming up. Jonathan Gomingo played because Jimmy Butler's out. We're going to get to that. Keontae George had 43 points. We're going to talk about him. And Will Guillory is here to talk about the Rockets' big comeback to beat the Spurs. Good morning, everybody. What's going on?
What impact does Jimmy Butler's injury have on the Warriors?
It's late night for the Raptors, man. Raptors on the West Coast, basically playing at midnight Eastern.
Dave, you know me. I'm basically always on the West Coast because I'm with you guys. That's true. This is my regular schedule. Raptors are just adjusting to me, really.
My favorite thing is pretending like I work late when S is up late. And Adam, three hours definitely later than me. Do you know how cold it is in Toronto right now, by the way? I'm not sure. It was 74. I walked home from the gym with no shirt on today.
I actually found out today that Fahrenheit ends up getting closer to Celsius once it hits zero. So right now it's minus 30 Celsius.
The quick and dirty translation is double it and add 30, right? Sure. So double the Celsius, add 30, that gives you Fahrenheit. It also works, you know, when you get down around zero. Yeah, it's pretty cold up there. A lot of snow.
Yeah, but look, the Raptors were heating up tonight.
How about that? Let's talk about it. Okay, so we got the bad news that we feared, that Jimmy Butler, he's going to miss the rest of this year and probably a good chunk of next season with a torn ACL. So the Warriors are going to have to scramble and try to figure things out. You know, on yesterday's show, Xena kind of called this, but she said maybe they got to go to Jonathan Kaminga. They did. They did. Yeah. Listen, the Warriors did get blown out by the Raptors. It was 145-127. But the one bright spot, I would say, for the Warriors was Jonathan Kaminga coming off the bench, gave him 20 points.
Yeah, look, they were down 30 in this game at one point. And they cut the lead in that fourth quarter, made it interesting. I think they eventually cut it to about 12 or 13 points. And the big catalyst was Jonathan Kaminga in this game. The Raptors just were so much more aggressive. They were the bigger team in this game overall. We'll talk about Emmanuel quickly in a second. But Kaminga came in and physically imposed himself, right? Battering his way to the basket. He was 7 of 10 from the field. And this is sort of what you thought Jonathan Kaminga could always provide for the Warriors, right? Right. This is exactly what he is as advertised. He's this hired gun, right? Like he's an assassin. Go get.
I wouldn't even say that. I mean, listen, he also got to the free throw line eight times. Yeah. Tell me what is the difference offensively here between what Kaminga did and And what Jimmy Butler usually does.
Yeah, that's completely fair.
And we've had this conversation all season long about how Jimmy Butler opened the door for them to play two different ways because he could play with Steph and he could play without Steph. And so maybe you have a situation where, you know, you have to lean on Kuminga. He just plays all of the non-Steph minutes and you try to find a way to make him fit. With the Steph minutes. But it's clear to me that he has a role on this team that needs another guy who can score.
It's funny because this comes on the heels of Mike Dunleavy saying, you know, there's a trade demand. And if there were demand for the player, then we would oblige that trade demand. Yeah. But it's become nonsensical because it seems like the relationship is untenable at this point.
Yeah. to me doesn't make a lot of sense because I haven't heard anything and you haven't seen anything reported and you don't see anything when you're watching these games to make you think like Jonathan Kaminga is some kind of a headache for them. And maybe he is, and there's just, everyone's really good at hiding it, but it hasn't come across that way. If anything, I would, I would argue some of the stuff that Steve Kerr has said.
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