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Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show.

Ding, ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

I like that idea.

Welcome to the Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

I'm joined by the Athletics to Lakers writer Yovam Buhha and Andrew Schultz is producing the show. We've been doingiss. I'm joined by the Athletics, The Lakers writer, Yovam Buhha, and Andrew Schultz is producing

the show. We've been doing this writer series throughout the offseason, kind of like sitting down

with our writers, finding out not only what it takes to put a story together, but also like

what it's like to put a story together. And you wrote about the biggest star in Los Angeles, the face of Team USA, Austin Reeves.

It's called The Meteoric Rise and Newfound Fame of Austin Reeves.

It came out August 22nd, which is a week ago from us recording this.

I can't believe that August is almost over.

But Austin Reeves' career was just starting.

And he is, he went from like, kind of like if you watch NBA games, you kind of know about this guy.

And he's like the fun kind of like, you know, rising guy that everyone's into, but no one thinks he's going to be like a serious player in this league.

And that's dramatically changed.

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