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Hello, and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. This is the Daily Ding.

It's your Eurobasket final eight update.

I'm Dave DeFord, joined by my good friend Christian Politi, the voice of Euroleague, Eurobasket. Basically, if you're in Finland

and you're watching basketball, Christian Pilote is probably talking to you. What's up, buddy?

I appreciate the intro. That was pretty accurate as well. So I'm good. And it's a pleasure to be

joining you here. And obviously, the Daily Ding is one of the

podcast that's automatically in the playlist every morning. Yeah, well, it's been a while since you

and I have had a chance to catch up. And it's funny because it's been a few years since we've spoken

on a podcast at least.

And in the last few years, there's been a shift in the NBA where you have like three of the top five.

You could say four of the top six, maybe players in the league that are Euros, international players players you know of course luca yannis

yokic embede i mean this is this is a massive shift and it's one that you actually saw coming a few

years ago when we were talking of course we thought larry mark and might be one of those guys maybe

but um you know uh how is that as that as a, as a, you know, a guy who

coaches there, you cover the league there and you cover the NBA. Like, what has it been like

to watch that process? Obviously, uh, you know, this is, this is because of the people that, that made it possible, the, the stars of, of, you know, this is because of the people that made it possible, the stars of, you know,

yesterday year, whether it was, you know, Tony Parker, Powgasol, Dirk Nowitzki, you know, 15 to 20 years

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