Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

With 6 days remaining the NBA regular season, the 2 through 8 seeds are all still up for grabs. Dave DuFour and RealGM’s Wes Goldberg breakdown the western conference playoff seeding race, discuss the field, and why the Clippers need to avoid the play-in. Then, Dave and Wes breakdown the defensive player of the year race, discuss Amen Thompson’s case, and why Tyler Herro should win most improved. Host: Dave DuFour With: Wes Goldberg Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Audio Producer: Grayson Moody Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:39.0	Coming up, Wes Goldberg from Real GM Radio's here.
0:41.9	We're going to talk about the teams that need to avoid the play in the most out West
0:46.0	and his opinion on defense player of the year and most improved.
0:52.6	Good morning, everybody.
0:54.0	Good morning, Wes. Good morning, Wes.
0:55.5	Welcome to the show.
0:56.5	Wes Goldberg.
0:57.5	If you guys don't know, he is the host of Real GM Radio and also Locked on Heat.
1:02.7	So he's one of my Miami Heat guys when I need some info.
1:06.0	But we're talking big picture NBA stuff.
1:09.2	National Championship game was last night.
1:12.9	What a game. What a game. That's right. Yeah. Excited to see how it turns out. Yeah, we're recording this before the game.
1:18.5	Full disclosure. But Wes, you know, looking at the playoff race out West, and it is objectively
1:27.1	a mess right now. basically the the way the play in is set up
1:32.8	with the seven and eight seeds right now we have a possibility of the lakers the nuggets the clippers the
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