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

I'm Jared Weiss, Andrew Schlecht is our producer, and today for our writer's series,

we are joined by the Athletic National Writer. Sam Amick, Sam, you opined on something that happened

with one of our other reporters.

Earlier, I was back in April, I think this year, where Janus and our Bucks reporter, Eric Name,

had a fascinating interaction that kind of took over the entire industry for a little while.

So just tell me what you remember from that moment and why you wrote about it.

Well, thank you for having me, Jared.

I love this series, and I'm humbled that you gave me the invite.

So this will be fun.

So, you know, Janus and the Bucks fall in the playoffs,

and, you know, they fall in their attempt to repeat what they did a couple years back

and win the NBA championship.

Yannis takes the press conference podium and is asked a question by the gentleman who you

mentioned, our friend and colleague Eric Nain, Bucks Beatrider, about whether or not he saw

this season as a failure because the Bucks had fallen short.

And as everybody, I think most people anyway, listening are probably aware,

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