Daily Ding: NBA investigations, Heat vs. Jazz, Best of the Weekend
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Keith Parish and Dave DuFour recap the biggest stories and top performances from the weekend, including the big matchup between the Miami Heat and Utah Jazz.
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| 0:00.0 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:03.0 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:08.8 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:14.8 | Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on The Athletic and BA show. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Dave DeFour. |
| 0:19.4 | Join as I am every single Monday by my man, Keith Parrish. |
| 0:22.4 | We're here with your weekend update, and there is a lot to talk about, so we're going to jump right into it. |
| 0:27.4 | On Friday, the NBA announced an investigation into the Phoenix Suns organization after an ESPN report on the toxic work environment under team governor Robert Sarver. |
| 0:38.4 | The story from Baxter Holmes includes damning quotes from former sons coach Earl Watson |
| 0:42.9 | and others citing specific incidents of racist and misogynistic language. |
| 0:49.4 | And Keith, this is bad. |
| 0:52.0 | It happens way more often than it ought to. |
| 0:55.0 | And I think at this point, we're just waiting to see where the league winds up with this. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, there are plenty of people that seem to have been sourced for this story. |
| 1:04.3 | There were a lot of anecdotes. |
| 1:07.7 | The league's going to look into it. |
| 1:09.0 | We'll see what happens next. |
| 1:10.5 | Right. It's hard for us to comment as just. We'll see what happens next. Right. |
| 1:10.9 | It's hard for us to comment as just your lowly basketball opinion havers. |
| 1:15.2 | But I think the striking thing of the story was the number of sources, I think there's over 70 people commented on the story with their negative versions of things that happened. |
| 1:25.7 | A lot of disturbing stuff in that piece. |
| 1:28.3 | There's also that really kind of horrific audio recording of a eulogy that came out. |
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