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Howard Beck, long time, fantastic league-defining NBA reporter, now at the ringer.

My buddy from Brooklyn.

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Mr. Beck, how you doing, buddy?

I guess good afternoon. Almost like good morning. Good afternoon everywhere. Good afternoon. It feels more like midnight. It's 5 o'clock and it's dark. It's pitch dark. It's just, it's depressing. Winter sucks. How are you? What are you talking about? You're under the Brooklyn Bridge.

The sun's shining on the Brooklyn Bridge. That's not a real image?

I wish that we're a live shot. That would mean we'd have blue skies. It would be the sun's

actually up. Instead, no. But we're all good.

Speaking of dreariness and darkness and bad things coming, do you have any confidence that the NBA can hold on to Christmas Day in any meaningful way with the NFL?

Obviously now having slates of games and it seems like coming for that day.

You know, I mean, I don't think the NBA was thrilled to have to go head to head with the NFL. The NBA has owned Christmas for a very long time. It has been a signature day. It's only grown over time. And, you know, it's just stacked wall-to-wall basketball from, you know, noon Eastern all the way to probably well-past midnight. It's an important day for the NBA.

It is a tent pole day.

In a lot of ways, it's kind of the unofficial start to the NBA season for casual fans

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