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

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I'm Dave Before here with Mo DeKeele for your Thursday night update.

Coming up, Luca works as magic in Brooklyn and the Warriors handle the heat.

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Mo, Luca Donchich and the Mavericks go into Brooklyn and get a victory.

Second night of a back-to-back for Brooklyn and Dallas takes them to overtime.

They win 129 to 105 thanks to Luca Donchett, just 41 points, 14 assists,

and 11 rebounds. And Mo, three of those assists were on three made threes in overtime,

and that was the game. Like, I mean, we can go through the first four quarters, and we will.

But the real game was, Luca flipped a couple passes behind his back, Guys hit shots. This is the story of the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah, I mean, Maxi Cleba and Reggie Bullock hit a couple of big threes off Luca Dimes. And to be honest, the Nets just were not able to defend Luca. They had no answer for him in any way, shape, or form. He destroyed anybody they put in front of him.

It did not matter.

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