Welcome to the Athletic NBA show's Christmas special, happy holidays to everybody out there listening to the Athletic MBA show.

We are thankful for you. Be sure to go to the athletic.com

slash NBA show and get the athletic for $1 a month for six months. It's a fantastic deal.

Please go check that out. We've got an action-pack show for you guys. We've got Zach Harper

breaking down the Christmas Day games for you. We have David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson talking about Christmas pass. We have some Christmas Day trivia with J.E. Skeets. We have Zach, Jay King, and Marcus giving out Christmas gifts to those. And we even have just a wonderful basketball Christmas-themed poem from our own Mike Smelts.

We appreciate you guys listening to our show all year long.

And without further ado, here's Zach to tell us about the Christmas Day Slate.

Hey, gang, happy holidays.

It's your pal, Zach Harper, the voice of the athletic.

You hear me on basketball buns.

You hear me on point of contention.

You hear me all over the place on the internet, talking basketball, talking whatever we want to talk about, right?

But right now I want to talk about this Christmas Day slate of games.

Happy holidays.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Hanukkah.

Whatever you celebrate, we want to celebrate it with you.

And we're going to celebrate it all together.

We're going to celebrate basketball, the NBA, with this five game slate starting Sunday, Sunday, Sunday on Christmas Day.

And we kick it off noon Eastern Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific.

You're out of there on the West Coast like I am. You're getting up. You're getting your coffee.

You're getting your cinnamon roll. You're plopping yourself on the couch. And you're gearing in for Sixers at

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