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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. We're here with your Thursday night recap on a good Friday morning

I hope everybody's doing well

I'm your host, Mode to Kill with me today is Yoban Buha

He covers the Lakers for us, but we forced him to watch some terrible basketball

and Yovon, the games tonight were not very good. Oof. Yeah. This was a rough night. Oof. Why did you guys do this to me? It was all by design. We said, we're going to get Yovan. We're going to make sure the games are particularly difficult and make him really have to watch it.

In fact, let me put it you this way to give you guys a little bit of behind the curtains.

The last game of the night has been so bad. The Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clipper game, is so bad.

We decided to start recording before the game ended because the Clippers decided to not even bring out their starters in the second half. They were getting beat so badly and so embarrassed by the Denver Nuggets.

Yo, but I want to start with that game. What the hell is going on with the Clippers?

I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Like on paper, you know, I know we've

throw this around a lot with different teams, but like,

they to me on paper are the deepest team in the NBA. Like I think you can make the case.

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