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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.

Hello, and welcome to the athletic Daily Ding.

I'm your host today, Mode DeKeele, Jared Weiss, couldn't be there with us because the Celtics were playing.

So, of course, he's working.

So if we brought my man James Edward III, yes, this game's so big, we didn't get the first. We didn't ask for the second. We brought in James Edwards III to talk about the game six of Boston versus Atlanta. James, how you do it? I'm doing well, well, well. Good to see you, man. I haven't been able to be on our Sunday show lately, but I'll be back Sunday. I almost feel like ever, James, but that's a whole different story, but that's breaking

news in its own right.

You being there telling us you're going to be there this Sunday is kind of like breaking

news in itself.

Folks, if you don't know, James Edwards covers the Detroit Pistons for us on the lovely website

Theathletic.com, go subscribe right there. Go read all his great works. He does a

great job of finding interesting stories. But James, we're not here to talk about the Pistons.

No. We had a pretty awesome game for game six in Boston versus Atlanta. This was one of those

things where I thought like, hey, Boston's going to blow them out. Boston's going to take them

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