Daily Ding: Ben Simmons Returns
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🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht and Mike Smeltz discuss Ben Simmons return to the lineup, how he looked, and how he will help the Nets this season.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Ding, ding. |
| 0:15.4 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:18.4 | I like that idea. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the Daily Ding. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck with me today. |
| 0:23.5 | It's the host of the glue guys podcast, a podcast about the Brooklyn Nets. |
| 0:26.9 | It's Mike Smeltz. |
| 0:28.1 | Mike, did you remember that you cover a basketball team that actually plays basketball? |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:35.5 | It was, it was jarring. |
| 0:42.2 | It was jarring to see all of these guys who, |
| 0:48.4 | the entire offseason, an offseason of discontent, to see Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant playing off of each other. It wasn't perfect, but to see them together, |
| 0:54.0 | um, I felt like I was in like being |
| 0:57.1 | portled into some bizarro world of some kind. But I'm thankful to be living in this bizarre |
| 1:02.8 | world because when they are together, it's exciting. It's fun basketball and it's exciting. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm glad that we finally got a taste of it. I still feel like something bad is going to happen, Andrew. Like, I feel like there's something cataclysmic coming that we're not prepared for. Because there's no way the basketball gods will allow those three to have a happy season. It's just not possible. But let's live in the moment and be happy while we're here. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. Yeah, they may have peaked last night, but if they did, let's just enjoy it for what it is. |
| 1:34.5 | Ben Simmons, this is the story. Everybody's been waiting. Yep. It's been, how long has it been? |
| 1:40.5 | You know this. I think it was like, it was like 420 days or something absolutely insane |
| 1:45.6 | like that. Yeah, the last time we saw him that he was playing in the playoffs against the Hawks, |
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