Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points and was named Western Conference Finals MVP as the Thunder clinch and NBA Finals berth and Western Conference title. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Thunder continuing their incredible season and react to some SGA stats. Then, Jon Krawczynski joins the show to give his thoughts on the Wolves disappointing performance, lessons for Anthony Edwards, and whether the Thunder have any weakness.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Jon KrawczynskiExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 29th, 2025. Coming up, the Thunder are in the finals, so John Krasinski's here to talk about that. Zena Kate and I are going to talk a little bit about how ridiculous Shea Gildress Alexander's been. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. How's it going? It's going well. Doubling up. Yeah, going great. We're going to OKC. Oh, wait.
Some of us are going to OKC. The Thunder have made the finals. The best team all year long. 68 wins. They checked every single box. They beat Jokic. They've done it. They've made the finals. Are you surprised at all, Zena?
Not even in a little bit. Like the fact that you didn't even mention Memphis is hilarious, but yes. Yeah. I was thinking of the basketball team. Took care of Jokic. Now they took care of Ant-Man and they're on their way to the finals. Good for them.
Yeah. Shea Gildas Alexander was named the conference finals MVP, which is got to say we've got too many awards. The Oscar Robertson Oscar Robertson Western Conference Finals trophy is for the team. The Magic Johnson Western Conference Finals MVP goes to Shea Gildas Alexander. Got to say, by the way, shout out to Clay Bennett. owner of the thunder.
He, you know, they always award these things to the owner. He immediately just turns and kind of pushes it up to the guys. Like that's how you're supposed to do it. Although I got to say the Florida Panthers made the Stanley cup finals. And I like the hockey tradition of not touching the, the conference finals trophy as like, well, we don't want that. That's not the one we want to touch.
You got to wait for the Stanley cup. Where do you side on that? Is it good? Should you celebrate every trophy or, or should you celebrate the one?
No, I like I like the thought of it in the sense of it makes me think of the Kobe quote, right? Like business isn't finished yet. That's cute, but that's not the goal. You don't want to get too happy with that, like that hardware. It doesn't mean anything when the real championship is coming. So that's right.
So she gives us Alexander. You're still a scrub until you get that finals MVP, right? Yeah. Honestly, I'm just kidding. I mean, we did it to Steph. We got to do it to Shea. Okay. So Shea, he goes, I mean, 34 points, eight assists, seven rebounds. Another just, you know, this is run of the mill for Shea at this point. Yeah. I mean...
how else can we talk about Shea's game?
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