Daily Ding: Curry cooks the Clippers, Heat dominate the Bucks & the latest on Ben Simmons
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Jared Weiss & Rich Hoffman break down the top NBA games and stories from Thursday, October 21st. The guys talk about the latest going on with Ben Simmons, Steph Curry goes off in a win vs the Clippers & the Heat dominate the Bucks.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA |
| 0:13.8 | NBA show. |
| 0:15.1 | My name is Jared Weiss. |
| 0:16.8 | I am joined by the Sixers supporter for the athletic, Rich Hoffman. |
| 0:22.3 | Rich, we just watched Steph Curry go off and then they almost beat the Clippers, |
| 0:28.3 | but we're not even going to talk about that because we have to talk to our Sixers |
| 0:31.8 | reporter about the never-ending insanity that is the Ben Simmons situation. |
| 0:36.9 | What is going on the last 24 hours? |
| 0:39.0 | Why would we talk about basketball being played at its highest form? That's not what basketball's |
| 0:43.8 | about. It's about talking about drama. And a guy not wanting to play for a specific city. Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | So it's funny, Jared. Yesterday, I was in New Orleans. Sixers played a |
| 0:56.1 | basketball game. Ben Simmons was suspended. It felt fairly normal. You know, this has been a team |
| 1:02.7 | that is emphasized from Doc Rivers on down, that they are pretty focused, despite all |
| 1:09.0 | of this drama that's going on, that the chemistry |
| 1:11.0 | outside of Ben Simmons is pretty good. And the image I have in my head is Ben Simmons |
| 1:16.8 | dribbling to the side as everybody else is like smiling and laughing at practice working on |
| 1:22.2 | drills. But here's the thing. When the game is over, it turns into Ben Simmons time again with the Sixers. |
| 1:29.7 | And, you know, as was reported today, he was supposed to work out. |
| 1:34.4 | He was part of like the low minute group, the no minute group because he got suspended. |
| 1:38.9 | And it didn't happen. |
| 1:40.8 | He talked about a back injury and he left. |
| 1:43.7 | And that is what happened |
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