How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Dang on The Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFour here with Keith Parrish for your weekend update.

Before we start, don't forget, if you are not already a subscriber, great way to start off the new year, $3.99 a month, just go to theathletic.com slash NBA show and sign up. Got a lot of stuff to get to. It was a pretty big weekend, so we're going to jump right in. The Chicago Bulls had a decent weekend.

2-0 picked up back-to-back close wins Friday night, Saturday night. Not too much more to that story, right, Keith? Just boring wins. Nothing else to talk about. Just your regular run-of-the-mill victories. No highlights from them? No. I mean, come on. We're joking around because DeRosen, perhaps the greatest two guard in Chicago Bulls history,

DeMar de Rosen knocks down buzzer-beater three-pointers on consecutive days.

And these were like the full value three-pointer.

This is not a tie game.

Like, oh, it doesn't matter if I miss it We're going overtime. We're talking about losing in both games, hands in his face, doing runners off one foot on both of them, knocks him down. DeMarjorosen, the hero of the weekend. Ended the year with the buzzer beater, start of the new year with the buzzer-beater,

just incredible stuff.

First time in NBA history that's happened. I'm just going to go ahead and say that. I'm not going to look it up, but I am just going to say first time someone has closed out a calendar year and started a calendar year with buzzer-beaters. DeMarta Rosen was excellent. Let's start with Friday night. This one-legged contested buzzer-beater shot,

that was three of his 28 points. I mean, not only is he hitting these buzzer-beaters,

but he's also just dominant. I mean, he's had a fantastic week, and he capped it off in

the most spectacular fashion. Zach Levine had 17 in this game. They were down 106, 105. Bulls really got nothing going, and he's just dribbling out top with two guys in front of him. And it's the Patrick Ewing, step back one-legged only. Step forward, one-legged. And it was just so much fun. And you just see the vibes around that team. The vibes are great right now.

Things are going so well for the Bulls.

They're in first place in the Eastern Conference.

They've won seven consecutive games overall.

And even the winner on Saturday night, it was his first three-point attempt for the game.

Take that analytics folks.

His first three-point attempt to the game, knocks it down.

Yeah.

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