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The Athletic NBA Daily

Daily Ding: Cavs on the Rise

The Athletic NBA Daily

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4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Jared Weiss and Kelsey Russo discuss the Donovan Mitchell trade, how it affects the Cavs on the court, does the defense take a step back? and more!


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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?

0:18.3

I like that idea.

0:20.3

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

0:23.9

I'm Jared Weiss.

0:25.0

She's Kelsey Russo.

0:26.6

Andrew Schleck is producing, and we're going to dive into the Cleveland Cavs, which

0:30.6

is the team that just had a massive facelift.

0:33.6

And welcome, first and foremost, to the Labor Day Trade Club.

0:37.8

I joined it a few years ago when Kyrie Irving got traded to Boston.

0:40.9

You joined it now with Donovan Mitchell getting traded to Cleveland for everything.

0:45.6

And it's always fun when you're supposed to be enjoying one of those last few weeks before the season and everything gets blown up in your face.

0:52.1

Oh, yeah.

0:52.8

It was a good time.

0:54.0

At least it was Thursday and not, you know, Friday afternoon, like a solid classic Friday

1:00.1

news dump.

1:01.4

Did you, were you caught off guard by this considering that it never seemed like Cleveland

1:06.8

was towards the front of the race?

1:09.4

Even the Knicks thought that they were comfortably in the driver's seat and there were

1:13.1

the reports coming out just before the trade got done that they were pretty much backing away

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