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

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Hello, and welcome to the Daily Dang on The Athletic Invea Show.

I am Dave DeFore here with Mo DeKeele.

Coming up, we've got Dame time in Portland, but we also got a little Murray time.

The Butler did it in Miami, and the Spurs sucked a little less than usual.

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Before we get to the NBA action from Thursday night, the biggest news in sports is that

Brittany Griner is coming home.

Our government, engineered a deal with the Russian government, to get her released

where she was wrongfully imprisoned.

And here at the athletic, we're happy about that.

We're good to see Brittany coming home.

Look forward to hopefully seeing her play basketball.

But the bigger thing is that she's home, she's safe and sound, she's with her family,

and we're happy

for that mo yeah i mean just you know it's been a long time and and and you know for a vape

pen and everything obviously we know there was more to it than that with you know what's going on

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