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 NBA show.

I am Dave DeFour here with Keith Parrish for your weekend update.

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Big, huge monster weekend in the NBA, Keith.

And to me, no bigger game than Warriors Lakers for the Saturday night main event.

And a rare thing happened, Keith.

We got the washed king, actually playing like people were calling him washed.

LeBron James was insane in this game.

He played like a man possessed, like he was angry.

It reminded me of his time in Cleveland

when this was actually a rivalry. And he led the Lakers who are not nearly as good as the Warriors

to a big time win, 124, 116, LeBron James, 19 of 31 overall, 6 of 11 from 3, 12 of 13 from the free throw line, 10 rebounds, 56

freaking points, Keith.

It was unbelievable.

You call it the game of the weekend.

I think that's fair to say after the fact, perhaps not heading into it.

There were some more titanic clashes of better teams playing, and we're going to get to some of those. But as far as like a marquee event, I saw some people rolling their eyes at yet another Lakers Warriors Saturday night. Listen, they already showed me a couple weeks ago. They could play a great game, even if neither teams are playing that well. And this is what it is. This is a star. It's a star-driven league. And you saw

LeBron James put on an absolute show, you know, up against obviously Steph Curry. It was

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