Daily Ding: What does Lonzo Ball's surgery mean for the Bulls? LA Clippers preseason check in
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Keith Parish and Dave DuFour discuss the recent surgery for Lonzo Ball and the Bulls chances to recover and check in on the depth of the Los Angeles Clippers.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:14.1 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:15.2 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:18.1 | I like that idea. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello, and welcome to The Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Keith Parrish for your little news update, a little bit of preseason preview, I guess we can call it. |
| 0:34.1 | Keith, some news from Chicago, and it's debatable as to whether or not it's actually good news. |
| 0:41.5 | Bullsguard Alonzo Ball has undergone another knee surgery, but the hope is, and the expectation |
| 0:49.3 | is that he should be able to play this season. So he's going to miss a few months recovering. |
| 0:55.3 | Now, he underwent the initial Arthur Scott surgery in January, and they said he'd be back |
| 1:01.7 | in six to eight weeks. |
| 1:02.8 | He missed the rest of the season. |
| 1:04.6 | He missed summer workouts. |
| 1:06.5 | A couple weeks ago, he said he couldn't run or jump. |
| 1:09.9 | Still can't play basketball. |
| 1:12.2 | And Keith, it's good news that coming out of the surgery, the pain is gone, because that |
| 1:17.5 | seems to be one thing that was hampering him. |
| 1:19.9 | He was in pain daily, which daily pain is awful. |
| 1:23.2 | So good news there, he's out of pain. |
| 1:26.0 | But maybe a little bit of false hope given the extent of the end. That's where I come down, Dave. And we were talking before the show where it's like, I guess it's good where he has a resolution. And the doctor's like, all right, we can fix it again. For me, it's like, is this good news? Because like you had this chronic thing. It did not get better with the previous surgery. |
| 1:45.2 | And now I know like the news breaking was released in kind of a positive slant to say like, |
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