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Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show.

Ding, ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

I like that idea.

Hello, and welcome to a special edition of the Daily Ding on The Athletic Inveeatio show.

I'm Dave DeFort, joined by our foreign correspondent Joe Varden, live from the Philippines,

where he's struggling a little bit, mourning his time to kind of get going.

Joe, man, I've been loving the work.

I've been reading everything that you're writing.

It's amazing having you there and in the middle of it.

And I'm going to point out real quick just for the listeners.

By the time you guys hear this, the game against Italy in the quarterfinals of the World Cup may

already be finished, you know, just a function of time difference and, and schedules working

out. But there's still a lot of things that I think are worth talking about. And Joe, right off the

top, I want to talk about Dintai Fung, the restaurant where you're eating all your pregame meals.

It was heavily featured in the article that you wrote about Jonas Valentunas, who will get to.

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