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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 a new episode of the Daily Ding.

Also, day late, but happy Valentine's Day to some of you folks.

Some of us chose to watch basketball on Valentine's Day.

That's what we're supposed to do.

That's what we're supposed to do, right?

That's Will Gilleri, Our man in New Orleans, amazing beat writer for the athletic. Go read his stuff. He's got a great piece with in street clothes, talking about the latest with Zion Williamson's injury and timelines and all that fun stuff. But we're not going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the games tonight.

I'm Mo DeKiel hosting.

We got Danielle Lehman on the ones and twos to make sure I don't completely drive this thing off the tracks. And Will, we got some games to talk about. And we got some All-Star stuff to talk about. We're going to hit the games pretty quick. Okay. Well, we're gonna, we're gonna fly through it because I want to get into the All-Star stuff.

Yeah, we gotta get to the nitty gritty.

Yeah.

Okay.

I just want to say, I'm just excited because this is our first time doing the ding together. It's only appropriate us on Valentine's Day. We hit a spread some love. Maybe not as much love when we talk about the skills competition, but we'll get to that. We'll get to that down the road. We'll get to that down to the road. But one thing that was, there's not a lot of love between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, except for the fact that none of the major Celtics played. And they made this a hell of a game down the stretch, forcing overtime. Sam Houser with a three to tie the game and then go into overtime. Unfortunately, they dropped this game by six. Man, just real quick, just hit me with a couple of your takeaways from this game. I mean, first off, I just got to know because I tweeted it at the end of the fourth quarter. What's your take? File, no file. The Bugs did do the right thing. Are you anti-fowling with a team down three final seconds?

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