Ding ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

I am joined by Mo to Kill as always. I just got back from Denver. So why don't

we start with the Nuggets at home? They beat the LA Clippers 127 to 115 with another impressive

night from Nicola Yoke chapter. A little bit of a tricky one against Boston last game.

I mean, everybody's having tricky ones against Boston. You didn't, I mean, we get it, Jared. You're the beat writer for the Celtics. You don't

need to bring them up on every podcast. We get it. We get it. Can we talk about the nuggets now?

Hi, I'm Jared Weiss, Bewriter for the athletic. No, listen, this was a really impressive game

from both teams.

It felt like a blowout at times.

You felt like, wow, how are the clippers like only down six all of a sudden

or making little runs?

But every time they made a run, the nuggets would stop the run and go on a run of their

own.

And a lot of it had to do with Yokic,

who was pretty impressive with 26 points, 12 rebounds, five assists, like a low assist night there. Like I thought the Celtics did a good job trying to neutralize him in other areas. But they got big nights from everywhere. And it's all about Bones Highland. Man, every time I watch Bones Highland, it's fun. I mean, he just, He came out the gate when he got in in the first quarter.

He was ready to go.

Oh, he's fun. I mean, he just, he came out the gate when he got in in the first quarter.

He was ready to go. Oh, he was gunning. And, you know, at a certain point, Jared, you would just think the clippers would go like, hey, he's hit a couple of shots in the first quarter. Maybe we should go over some of these screens instead of continuing to go under. And they didn't. And he had a big one in the fourth quarter where I was like, wow, that's a gutsy shot.

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