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

NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

It's a Friday morning that means I'm joined by Mo DeKiel.

Mo, we had some good ones in the association last night. It was too many games. Too many good games. I couldn't keep up. Jared. It was like, oh, I want to watch this one. I want to watch this one. And they were all almost at the same time. Yeah, we usually do three games on the show, but we're going to have to squeeze in a fourth.

Really every game would have fit.

But we're going to have to squeeze in a fourth. Really every

game would have fit. But we're going to have to start with Miami versus Brooklyn. I know

I producer Bryant Smith enjoyed this one. Miami wins 113, 107, and Kevin Durant's return. We will get

to Kevin Durant, but there's somebody else we got to talk about first. Jimmy Butler? Kyle

Lowry? P.J. Tucker? Bam out of bio. 30 points. Oh, he's the one who played of those four. That's why. 12 for 15 from the field, 11 boards, six times, two steals, and of course the bucket that clinched the win for them. Bam was awesome in this this game and it's on a night when they needed it.

Jimmy's sitting out. P.J. Tucker's sitting out. We know Lowry's been out the past few games for

personal reasons. This is one of those nights, especially after the bad loss they had, you know,

their previous game against Milwaukee when they blew that game. It was one of those like,

yo, we really need to get this game and start kind of putting a

run together here a little bit and sort of cementing our position as the number one seat in

the Eastern Conference.

Bam was awesome, crashing the boards, 11 rebounds just on that alone.

The bucket down the stretch that really kind of put the game away with the

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