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

Ding, ding!

How about we can just watch basketball?

I like that idea.

Good morning and welcome to the Daily Ding here on The Athletic NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

He's Mo DeKeele.

Daniel Lehman is our producer.

And we're going to start with the Mazz Clippers game because Nicholas Batum didn't miss a shot until his very last shot of the game, which happened to be his best play of the game because he had to miss a free throw to try to extend the game.

The ball fell into Robert Covington's hands.

He looked at the rim before the ball is in his hands and what happened after that, Mo.

I mean, he just lost the ball out of bounds.

It's the classic, if you're a football fan, it's the classic, you don't

look the ball under your hands. You immediately start looking up field. And they blew it right

there. And I think that was a big opportunity in that moment. But whom was awesome in this game.

Seven to seven. I mean, he, I mean, all threes. Like, he just kind of went completely nuts,

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