Luka’s emotional return to Dallas

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

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Luka Doncic scored 45 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a win in his first game back in Dallas. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni talk discuss Luka’s big game, Lakers small ball, the Warriors buzzer-beater loss to the Spurs, and the Nuggets first post-Malone game. Then, Christian Clark from the Athletic joins the show to discuss Luka’s return, the emotions in the building, and those “Fire Nico” chants. Host: Dave DuFour With: Es Baraheni & Christian Clark Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Audio Producer: Grayson Moody Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:08.8	Coming up, Luca returned to Dallas.
0:11.5	We talked to Christian Clark about after the game.
0:14.3	The Warriors lose on a buzzer beater and the Nuggets play a game with Nicola Yokic's head coach.
0:20.7	Good morning, everybody. Good morning. The Nuggets play a game with Nicola Yokic's head coach.
0:23.6	Good morning, everybody.
0:26.9	Good morning, Dave.
0:29.1	Got another wild night, man.
0:36.7	Somehow we're approaching the end of the regular season and every single night is just nuts from here on out.
0:39.6	We got to start with the big news of the day.
0:45.2	Luca Dachich went back to Dallas and just dominated, put up 45 points.
0:50.1	What did you expect coming into this, S?
0:53.9	Obviously, look, it's a huge deal. Yeah.
0:55.0	I, I would just say straight up, I didn't think it was going to be as emotional to start with.
1:01.0	I did feel like it was going to feel like a big moment, but I didn't, didn't expect what we started with.
1:08.0	It was really emotional seeing Luca react to the tribute video.
1:11.6	I mean, I got emotional watching it because it did feel like he wanted to be a Maverick
1:17.4	for the rest of his career, to live in Dallas for the rest of his life type of thing.
1:22.3	And you could see in that moment sort of a bit of closure from him, understanding that this is over and this is
1:29.8	just part of the chapter, move on.
1:32.2	And now I'm going to drop 45 points on you guys.
1:34.7	Like that's, I thought the way that he kind of channeled that energy into the game, especially
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