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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'm Jared Weiss.

I am joined by Nick's writer extraordinaire Fred Katz, we have Andrew Schleck producing. And Fred, I want to talk to you about two stories you read this year. And the first one, we're going to have to hop on the D train for this one. So can tell me about how normal... You can hop on the D train, my man. Listen, relax. Mitchell Robinson's not. Mitchell Robinson is not hopping on the D-Train.

I'll tell you that much.

Okay, so you attempted to write a story about Mitchell Robinson and it turned into this.

And it's, I don't know how to explain it, except that it's bizarre, it's insane, it's stupid, and it's incredible.

I will accept all of those.

I think bizarre and sane and stupid are compliments in this scenario.

Incredible.

I don't know.

I think it's incredible in the literal definition of incredible.

I think it completely just, the story just lends no credit to anybody.

It should, I think it's discreditable.

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