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NBA Daily Ding: Wizards Comeback Win, JR Smith Done in Cleveland, Heat Lose Again, Celtics Early Season Struggles

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🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour, Blk Tray and Justin Rowan talk about a four-game Tuesday night in the NBA. The guys chat about the Wizards comeback win over the Clippers, Toronto needing a clutch shot to beat the Magic, the mounting struggles for the Heat and more.

 

Jared Weiss of The Athletic joins to talk about the Celtics recent struggles.

 

Produced by: Rob Lopez

 

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0:00.0

Good morning. Welcome to the Daily Ding. I am Dave DeFort. Joining me this morning is Black Trey,

0:10.2

Justin Rowan, and Rob Lopez producing as usual. We're going to run through all the results from

0:14.9

four game Tuesday nights, including the Wizards and Clippers and the Raptors Magic. We'll also be

0:20.7

joined by Jared Weiss of the Athletic Boston to talk about the Celtics and their problems.

0:25.5

But first, let's start with the Wizards.

0:28.8

They trailed by 24 at one point in this game, including being booed in the first quarter and had the best wizard comeback since Voldemort.

0:37.4

John Wall with 30 points, eight assists, and four rebounds, tied a career high with five

0:41.7

threes.

0:42.5

Bradley Beale chipping in with 27 and seven.

0:45.9

Trey, are the wizards fixed?

0:49.2

Absolutely.

0:50.0

They're still broken.

0:51.5

But this was a good game to deal with a little adversity and feel good about

0:57.2

themselves to, you know, understand the highs and lows of the NBA. And these guys are pros pretty much,

1:03.9

you know, I just want to give a shout out to John Wall, you know, dealing with all adversity

1:09.3

that he's experienced, you know, being brought up in

1:11.5

trade rumors and people making jokes and saying he's finished and washed and all this other stuff

1:16.5

and what happened to John Wall. John Wall responded tonight. And I get it. It's the Clippers,

1:20.9

but the Clippers have been hot and I won't like downplay this win for them. Now, will they go off and go on a win streak i won't i won't go

1:30.2

that far but this is a start that they needed justin tobias harris puts in 29 shea gildes

1:37.5

alexander the great chips in 17 and lou will had 17 off the bench did Did LeBron choose the wrong LA team?

1:46.0

I wouldn't go that far, but it is noteworthy that both LA teams are in pretty good position.

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