Will Jayson Tatum return for the Celtics this season?
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 12th, 2025. I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Henney. Coming up, the Rockets beat the Clippers, but man, it took a long time to finish that game. And Steph Curry's coming back. We're going to talk about his impact on the Warriors. And Jake King is here to talk about the Celtics and how they've been winning, except for last night. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, guys. I love when we book a guest because a team's been hot or doing something interesting, and it's just like, oh.
The NBA Daily curse hasn't been going crazy this year, but we unfortunately got one with Jay tonight.
Well, we got the double whammy on the cup night the other night because we picked both the losers and, you know, hey. We were just rolling the dice out here. Speaking of. All right. Look, we watch a ton of basketball every single night.
What happened in the Rockets vs. Clippers game?
And we've talked about watchability this season. And I don't want to be a guy who's like complaining about refereeing because like it's hard to ref. Reviews are going to happen. But what happened at the end of the Rockets Clippers game last night is just egregious. It was, you know, we these games are already taking forever. That game last night, the final 17 seconds took 17 minutes in real life to finish. They were at 27 seconds left with about two and a half minutes left in Celtics bucks. And the press conferences were done by the time that game was over. Yeah.
How will Steph Curry's return impact the Warriors?
That was absurd, man.
No, I mean, look, we have one of these every so often that just reminds us about the grueling nature of the end of basketball games. My wife always jokes with me, you know, she'll be like, oh, how much is left in the game? And I'll be like, oh, it's just like a couple minutes. And she'll be like, okay, I'll see you in 25 minutes.
What are the Celtics' recent performance trends?
It's NBA time. It's NBA time. Right. And like between reviews and challenges and referees looking over things, the end of games have just become so grueling. And to add to the fact, I know this is something we both hate. Fouling up three has made it even more absurd because now I'm going through all this for nothing. Exactly. Right. There's no, it's a three point game and there's no incentive for me because I know it's going to come down to free throws. It's going to come down to this battle of like, Hey, we have two seconds left on the clock. How many timeouts do we have? Instead of it being, Hey, we have a three, it's three points and we have an opportunity to score here. I think that has to be somehow legislated out of the game.
They have to find, maybe it's a technical foul. Maybe it's an away, the away from the ball foul, something that,
in order to allow teams to have an opportunity if they're down three well there's so many other rules that they're willing to just kind of look beyond or create new versions of to make it more entertaining and this to me is like the take foul the take foul was taking away from the entertainment factor of the nba and really the spirit of the game that's the other thing is like You're up three.
How has Jaylen Brown stepped up without Jayson Tatum?
You should still have to play defense because there's a three point shot. And to win. Listen, I understand his strategy and it's smart. Yes, trust me. I know I'm a coach and we intentionally foul bad free throw shooters all the time. It doesn't mean that that's what I want to watch on television. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with coaches doing it.
Like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with coaches doing it. It's part of the rules. It's part of what's allowed. You have to have that gained advantage. But I think that's ridiculous. And to your point about the Rockets-Clipkers game, it was a fun game. It was back and forth. James Harden and Kawhi were making shots. Zubach had a great game. Ben Thompson had a great putback for the lead. Absolutely. Steven Adams had an incredible Duncan transition. Like there were a lot of great moments for that to be ruined by challenges and reviews. It's just it's deflating.
You know, it's literally like imagine watching a great movie in the last 20 minutes.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:09–1:02
2
What happened in the Rockets vs. Clippers game?
1:02–1:44
3
How will Steph Curry's return impact the Warriors?
1:44–2:02
4
What are the Celtics' recent performance trends?
2:02–3:16
5
How has Jaylen Brown stepped up without Jayson Tatum?
3:16–6:23
6
What are the implications of Jayson Tatum's potential return?
6:23–25:28