Ding ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on the Athletic Inve A show.

I am Dave DeFore here with Keith Parrish for your final weekend update of

the regular season. Before we start, don't forget, you can get this podcast without ads by going

to theathletic.com slash NBA show and subscribing. Keith, everything that we expected to happen this

weekend came to pass. No surprises.

It all went chalk.

It honestly did.

The final day of the regular season is exciting in some sense.

There are still some things to be worked out.

There were seeding questions.

I guess the biggest question on Sunday was,

were any of the Eastern Conference team going to maybe dodge the nets nets or like would the Bucks get to suit their players up and the Bucks did not suit their players up against the Cavaliers?

And I feel like everything else, there was no big surprise.

It felt like these matchups, unfortunately, maybe it's just bad luck for the NBA schedule.

They all pitted teams that were playing for something

against teams that were not playing for anything.

So, you know, good job Pacers, putting up a little bit of a fight.

Good job Wizards for playing the Hornets close.

But basically most of Sunday, where every NBA team played,

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