Wemby Destroys The Pistons + West Playoff Race
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What were the significant impacts on the Western Conference playoff race?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for March 6th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Henne coming up. We had a big night in the West with huge impacts on the standings. We're going to hit that. Then Hunter Patterson joins us to talk about the Pistons losing to the Spurs again.
Good morning, everybody. What's up, S? Did you know it's Shaq's birthday? Yeah. I did not. But now I do. I don't know why I know it. Shout out to the diesel man. Happy birthday to Shaq. I know. Andrew Schleck definitely knows it's Shaq's birthday. He absolutely does. Yeah. Shout out to Shaq. Speaking of Shaq, Lakers centers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That's a segue right there.
How did Victor Wembanyama perform against the Pistons?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was passed last night by LeBron James for most made field goals all time in NBA history. Yeah. Yeah. Fun. You know, when you told me this like two hours ago, because he did it very early in the game. Yeah. He only needed three coming in. Yeah. I asked you, I'm like, this is a thing that we track? Because I didn't know that most field goals. Made field goals? Yeah. I just didn't really think. I thought points was what we cared about. Made field goals, maybe not so much. But when you said, you know, it's kind of hard to pass Kareem like it is with points. And anything. That put it in better context for me. Yeah. Sure. The next closest active player is Kevin Durant, and I think he's like 4,000 made shots behind.
That's absurd. Right. I don't think there is currently an active player. I mean, maybe a guy that we'll talk about a little bit later, but I don't think there's a current active player that even has a chance. Maybe Wemby? I don't know if he's going to be able to play the number of games. Like LeBron's consistency is really – and this was the thing about Kareem. He just played every game. And LeBron has just played so many games in his career. Like availability is a skill, and it's been one of LeBron's signature skills. Yeah, it's kind of weird to see him – you know, obviously he got hurt at the end of this game with like an arm or elbow thing. Yeah, yeah. And obviously he started the season hurt. But it's weird to see him like that.
It's weird to see him hurt. It's a rarity considering me and you have both watched the entirety of his career.
What records did LeBron James achieve in the latest game?
And for the most part, he's been on the court. Yeah. And the thing is, it's easy to just ho-hum this. It's like, oh, LeBron broke another record. But nobody's going to do this again. No, nobody is. You're right. You're right. And look, I have to contextualize this. I have known basketball for as long as LeBron James has been playing NBA basketball. So just consider that. He is the only really amazing player, like the great that you've ever seen. I mean, it's him, Steph, and KD are the three greatest players. You saw Tim Duncan. Yeah. Yeah, Tim Duncan, Kobe. I saw those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. No, come on, man. Respect me in my old age. Whose career you've seen the entirety of, I should say. Yes. All right.
That makes sense. Anyway, the Lakers lost. They did. Yeah. To the Nuggets. They're in the sixth seed still. But the Nuggets, they pick up a little bit of steam trying to catch the Rockets. They're basically in a dead heat. for that four or five spot right now uh the wolves get a win over the raptors and they they now have a game up on the rockets uh and the nuggets for that that three seed um let's talk a little bit about denver lakers denver looked like they were running away early yeah but again the their lack of defense that lack of defensive intensity and the lack of rim protection from yokich and the lakers get back in the game and you know down the stretch I just wasn't sure that the Nuggets were going to be able to hang on.
Luka had a pretty ridiculous game, but the Lakers, I thought they were causing a lot of problems for the Nuggets. They created so many turnovers, uncharacteristic for what we're seeing out of the Nuggets. But the Nuggets just looked sluggish at the end of the game. Yeah, it was really interesting because the zone bothered the Nuggets.
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