Daily Ding: Bulls postponed, Warriors outrace the Pacers, Cavs handle the Heat
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🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Travonne Edwards and Dave DuFour breakdown news and games from Monday in the NBA. The NBA has postponed the Chicago Bulls next two games. The Warriors win over the Pacers in the final seconds, but Steph Curry remains 1 three pointer behind Ray Allen on the All Time Three Pointers Made list. The Cavaliers continue their impressive start to the season with another victory, this time over the shorthanded Miami Heat.
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| 0:00.0 | Ding ding! |
| 0:03.0 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:08.8 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:13.7 | Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on The Athletic Invea show. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Dave DeFour here with Trouin Edwards for your Tuesday morning update. Before we start, don't forget if you haven't already subscribed to The Athletic. You can get this podcast ad-free, along with all the great journalism and opinion that we offer over at the Athletic by going to theathletic.com slash NBA show. Go and sign up. It makes a great Christmas present. So, you know, go ahead and get that out of the way. |
| 0:39.3 | Knock it out. |
| 0:39.8 | Get it for your mom. |
| 0:55.7 | She loves this show. Theathletic.com slash NBA show. Go now. Lots to get to. So we're going to jump right in. And unfortunately, we are going to start with some bad news. the NBA has postponed the Chicago Bulls next two games against the Pistons and the Raptors due to the Bulls having 10 players in COVID-19 health and safety protocols. |
| 1:02.0 | It was announced on Monday. |
| 1:02.9 | The league also said there are additional Chicago staff members that are in the protocol. |
| 1:08.2 | This is actually the first NBA game that's been postponed this season due to a team not having enough players. |
| 1:14.4 | And Zach Levine joined fellow star Demarta Rosen among other Bulls. |
| 1:21.5 | I mean, it just feels like every single Chicago Bull is in the health and safety protocols. |
| 1:25.8 | And it's it's a bad story because we don't want anyone in the health and safety protocols, |
| 1:31.1 | Trey. |
| 1:31.7 | But especially it's bad for this Bulls team because they're doing so well. |
| 1:36.5 | And you just hate to see them derailed for reasons that aren't on the court. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, this isn't the first team that's affected by, you know, these COVID restrictions. |
| 1:46.3 | So, again, it's definitely unfortunate, but it's definitely to look out for the health and safety of the well-being of everybody else involved. |
| 1:56.2 | And it just happens to hit at the wrong time. |
| 1:58.9 | But I do think that the Chicago Bulls team will bounce back eventually. |
| 2:03.8 | But this is not unfamiliar territory. |
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