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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.

I am joined by the Athletics Clippers writer Law Murray. Andrew Schlecht

is producing this one. And we are continuing our writer series here in the offseason where we're

catching up with different writers across the athletic to talk to them kind of going behind the scenes

and the process of some of their most important stories from this year and how they set up for what's about to come.

With training camp about, what, like a month and a half away now?

So Law, I want to start here with your piece on Kauai Leonard because Kauai Leonard has

like not played a lot in the last, what, four or five years or something like that. And I think we all

forget that the Clippers do have two superstars on their team. They still have a lot of talent,

enough talent to be a contender. It's just that they never seem to be fully healthy. And first,

Jared, it's good to see you, man. It's been a little bit.

That's a weird thing about the summer.

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