Daily Ding: Curry leads Warriors, Kemba can't carry Knicks, 11 games!
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🗓️ 24 December 2021
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Mo Dakhil and Dave DuFour recap an extremely busy Christmas Eve Eve in the NBA. 46 points from Steph Curry leads the Warriors to a W over the Grizzlies, while Kemba's 44 isn't enough to overcome the Wizards.
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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? |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Dave D'Four here with Mo DeKille for your Christmas Eve update. Before we start, |
| 0:22.6 | don't forget if you haven't already subscribed, you can get this podcast advertising free, |
| 0:27.3 | along with the great journalism and opinion that we offer over at the Athletic by going to |
| 0:31.7 | theathletic.com slash NBA show. A lot of stuff to get to. So we're going to jump right in. |
| 0:37.1 | 11 games played Thursday night as the NBA tries to get all these teams some games before the day off on Christmas Eve. |
| 0:44.5 | Brooklyn and Portland were postponed. |
| 0:46.8 | We got Christmas Day games coming up on Saturday. |
| 0:50.5 | But Mo, it was a crazy night. |
| 0:52.2 | And we're going to try to do this a minute of game. We're going to touch on every game. And we're going to start in Indiana as the Pacers beat the Rockets, 118, 106. Big news in this game, really, for the Rockets is that Jalen Green came back. He was on a minute's restriction. Mo, how did he look? He looked good, you know, 7 or 14 from the field on those 25 minutes, 20 points. I mean, you know, for our first game back, that's solid. Miles Turner had 32 and 10 and, you know, just goes to show Mo that when this guy gets an opportunity, he can make stuff happen, not just for himself, but for other people. He actually was instrumental to their offense tonight. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm a big Miles Turner head. This dude's awesome. I think he does a lot more stuff for you defensively. Had a great offensive game tonight. You can't go wrong with that. I think this is one of those things, a showcase game where Indiana could go like, see, he could play. Carus Levert had 24 and 11 assists filling in at point guard for Malcolm Brogden. |
| 1:29.1 | Fantastic. |
| 1:46.4 | The Pelican. and it could go like, see, he could play. Caris Levert had 24 and 11 assists filling in at point guard for Malcolm Brogden. |
| 1:47.1 | Fantastic. |
| 1:50.3 | The Pelicans are just a great story right now. |
| 1:54.0 | They're 12 and 21 after beating the magic 110 to 104. |
| 1:59.3 | Brandon Ingram having a very quiet good season Mo had 31 points in this one. |
| 2:02.3 | Josh Hart also having a quiet good season. Everybody having a good season in Mo had 31 points in this one. Josh Hart also having a quiet good season. |
| 2:06.8 | Everybody having a good season in New Orleans is very quiet about it. |
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