Warriors win without Curry + Can NBA referees improve?

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Butler connected on all 11 of his free throws to lead the Golden State Warriors to a win over the Milwaukee Bucks in spite Steph Curry’s absence. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita discuss the Warriors win, the Bucks issues scoring, and Kawhi Leonard’s performance in the Clippers win over the Cavaliers. Then, the Athletic’s Shakeia Taylor joins the show to go deep on NBA referees, the sports referee crisis, and how the league’s rules are interpreted. Host: Dave DuFour With: Zena Keita & Shakeia Taylor Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Audio Producer: Grayson Moody Read Shakeia Taylor on referees: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6197306/2025/03/17/nba-refs-referees-officials-officiating-basketball/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	Good morning, everybody.
0:38.2	Welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:39.9	Coming up, the Warriors won a game without Steph Curry.
0:42.6	What?
0:43.8	The Clippers beat the caps.
0:46.5	And Shakia Taylor stops by to talk about referees and the referee crisis in America.
1:00.4	Yeah. referee crisis in America. Good morning, everybody.
1:02.1	Good morning, Zena.
1:03.2	I don't know if I could have sounded more serious in that rundown, the referee crisis
1:07.6	in America.
1:08.8	But anyway, we had a great conversation with Shakia Taylor from the Athletic.
1:14.1	She wrote an interesting story about how the NBA is training referees or not training
1:19.6	referees.
1:20.2	So we talked to her after the break.
1:22.1	I hope you guys really enjoy it.
1:24.1	Zena, not a lot of games last night, but there were some really important games,
1:31.3	at least for the teams that got wins.
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