The BOLDEST Predictions for Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets next Season | DNVR Nuggets Podcast

The BOLDEST Predictions for Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets next Season | DNVR Nuggets Podcast

[Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Go back to the drawing board. That new is that a new font on the clock? No. Wow. These are the things you notice. What’s going on everybody? Welcome into Casual Friday. We’re live on the D&D Nuggets podcast from the studio. Hell yeah. Casual Friday. Beautiful day in Denver, Colorado. Man, my vibes are high. I’m curious how you guys are doing. That’s Dline. That’s right, guys. Hey, listen. Three men on the set, but not really. Look at this. Dev here. Dev represented on my shirt. Yeah, dude. Can you close your laptop for one second? I put I said earlier on um Twitter that I sometimes sometimes casuals are or Fridays are casual. Other days you feel like dressing up. You know what I mean? That’s a glorious shirt, man. I feel like we need more shirts with just our faces on them. Hey, listen. I mean, obviously they would not sell, but we could. I mean, not for sale, just to wear on this show. I think you’re right. I think you’re right about that. Got Brett and Vote over there, too. What’s up, guys? How you doing? Super for the weekend where nothing in my life will change. I was just going to ask, you guys got weekend plans, though? Not even a little bit. Curious for you when the week starts? I don’t know, dude. I find out what day I find out what day it is when we get here, man. Hell yeah, dude. Sometimes I show up. Turns out it’s the weekend. You’re like, it’s casual Friday. We’re like, it’s Tuesday. Yeah. or it’s Sunday and the doors are locked. I don’t know. We should get you keys. Yeah. Okay. Um, got a fun show coming up today. Got some news and notes to go over. We’ve also got some bold predictions for next season. I thought it’d be a good time of the off season to get bold. Start handing out some bold predictions and get bold. And then finally, in segment three, a new segment. What? I’m debuting a new segment that you guys have no idea about. Bro, I’m not going to say anything about it until we get there. And then we’re gonna do it up. Speaking of unplanned segments. Well, it’s fully planned. Just use Well, I mean just like un uh unshared segments. Yeah. Uh any chance Kale, can you uh ready the results of the uh draft we did yesterday? Oh, we can also talk about yesterday’s draft. Yeah, that caused quite the stir on mine. What a stir indeed. the uh terms associated with Nicole Yokicraft. Word words associated words associated with Nicole Jokic draft. Let’s go to that first here. Here’s the board. So, just as a reminder, Harrison, you weren’t here. I’ll walk through the slack. Uh did a surprise snake draft where he and he alone had the ability to prepare ahead of time. He had a big board he was going off of. How how how much of a heads up did you guys get on when it showed up on the screen and I had the first I had the first pick segment three or four is when I went in blind to with a first pick and uh anyway uh so let’s see the results okay Adam okay so go ahead and vote Dline make that happen votes himself okay Adam carrying uh 6.2% 2% of the vote with that might be a historically worst performance ever in a draft, especially for the only one with prep time. 6.2% is shockingly low. Like you would think enough people just accidentally click at him for it to get above 6.2%. Uh, no. That again, the only one with any prep time came up with this a long time before. Anyway, 6.2. Well, can we go back to the board? Yeah. Well, let me see what happened to get him 6.2%. 2%. So he picked Serbia. Serbia is his number one pick. Okay. I know a little weak. Passing. All right. Second round pick from a guy who calls himself the Jokic whistle. I know. There have been other passers in the NBA. But also passing could mean passing away. You know what I mean? It’s like Bball IQ. Okay. Honestly, people don’t even say it that way. Never. Not once. Obviously, we know he’s smart, but it just doesn’t come up. Number 15. Yeah. And plus minus. How does this end? Wow. What a nerd. God, all this. I do want to shout out uh the 10% of people who are complete sickos who agreed with me. Yeah. Well, Kale, I said this already. Uh Kale’s pick of stretch five. One of the worst picks in DMVr draft history. It really is. It really is. I panicked. It’s true. Dev picking Subway Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yeah. Kale had the Kale had the wraparound pick. He went triple double and then sombore double shuffle right there. Yeah. Could have had Sombo shuffle again. I got Joker uh in the second round after just a less than inspirational draft. Anyway, I uh I won. I mean, what? Come on. What are we doing here? Come on. Eric nailed the key to his snake draft, which is not blowing the first overall pick. Yeah, I just go. Yeah, you get the first like that uh this is like that animals draft when you just start like No, that was Brandon. He took all toxic masculinity. Someone I won’t tell you who in this office came up to me earnestly and was like, “Dude, your team was sick.” And I was like, “You were the voting base. I was vote took like cow, horse, no he took like grizzly bear, just like wolf, lion, like all the gas stations. He took every alpha predator, gorilla. Can I take a guess at who that was in the office? No. Yeah. Yeah. Off air. Yeah. Yeah. Off air. You can do it on air. I mean, it was Spencer, right? No. Good guess, though. You’re in the right ballpark. You’re in the right ballpark. I’m sure Spencer voted for me that day. That was a good draft. I think jively that that’s a good word. No, I know. Clearly, we left a lot of things on the table and the things we brought on the table should not have been on them on the table. Not in a lot of instances. very illprepared. That’s what that’s what people say when they invite me to parties. Um, I saw this on uh Twitter this morning, but so Michael Porter is in Brooklyn. I don’t know if you guys have been watching the Curious Mike vlogs. I’m no longer curious. I didn’t know he was in Brooklyn, though. I My curiosity, you guys didn’t watch the uh the Nets facility tour. My curiosity tour. My curiosity has officially ended. I was still a little curious, but uh he’s now posted two two recent uploads to the Curious Bike channel. He had the Goodbye the Denver one and the I guess Welcome to Brooklyn one. But this is something else that came through on the Michael Porter front. A Brooklyn Nets executive believes that Michael Porter could come close to winning the scoring title. And it looks like the reasoning is we’re transitioning our roster, going to play a lot of young players, but we need some vets to balance that. Of course, we need to score some points. Porter will help us a ton there. I’m not saying he’ll win the scoring title, but I think it could be close. So, last year, the NBA scoring leader, do you know how many points per game they averaged? Uh I believe if I’m not mistaken it was Shay Gilis Alexander and he scored somewhere in the neighborhood of 31 to 32 points. It was Shay Gilis Alexander 32.7 points per game. Okay. It’s a lot. So I probably like shadow watched Porter as in watching him and only him during his minutes more than probably anyone that’s outside of his family in the world cuz he’s on the floor with Jokic a lot. So, usually what you should do is either watch the whole thing or watch Jokic. Every now and then I will just watch Porter because I’m who I am. And I got to tell you something. I’m one of the biggest Porter believers, defenders. There’s not a chance to hell. There’s not a chance. And there are so many honestly good reasons for that that aren’t even dunking on Mike. I hope Mike has a great season. I think there’s a chance he can. I hope it’s somewhat of a late developmental season for him because he’s he’s not necessarily in this like rigid role, but he’s not going to average 30 points a game, man. I mean, I’d be I’d be stoked if he averaged 22. Yeah, I I I got him at 22 24 a game. Does he mean the leading scoreer on the Nets? Well, he has competition with Cam Thompson. That’s what I mean, right? But he he mean the guy meant the leading scoreer in the NBA, not just the on the Nets. Like, can we can we verify? Even if he meant Brooklyn, it’s an argument. And I’m not, again, I’m not trying to I I really like who Porter was as a Nugget. I really believe in who Porter would have been without those surgeries. People say he can’t create his own shot. I mean, again, developmental time for Porter was rehab time or stand in the corner time. I’m not saying that was a wrong approach from Denver, but Mike has gotten really far into his career with a lot of important developmental minutes never having happened, including in college. So, I’m not dunking on him or or it’s just that’s that’s ambitious to me. I hope Mike plays really well. But my point is Mike has a lot of development to do at a fairly late stage in his NBA career. It’s you can’t you can’t just hit a bunch of threes and and lead the NBA in scoring is how I feel. That’s insane. It is kind of insane. Here’s here’s an argument that I I I think that Brooklyn executive is probably looking at. If I could play devil’s advocate, even if I’m on your guys’ side, do you remember when Jeremy Grant left Denver? Yeah, that Jeremy Grant is the one where he averaged 12 points a game with the Nuggets. Yeah. Then he goes to the Nets, he takes nine more shots per game, averages or he goes to the the Pistons, takes nine more shots per game, and averages 22 points a game. Yeah. 20. Yes. And he was the leading scoring. He was the leading scorer on uh the Pistons. And it was like Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. And maybe Mike could do that with like a huge gash to his efficiency. Yeah. But getting all the you know, you just need a full bag to be the leading scoreer in the NBA. And we know that Mike doesn’t have one. And Jeremy Grant uh moved from the bench to the starting unit. True. Yeah. He he also went from averaging uh he did average 26 minutes on the Nuggets to 34 minutes on the Nets. I will say very quickly and perhaps quietly having point guards that passed when the ball get. But I again I think Mike could have a great year and I hope he does. I I think Mike probably had more to offer as a player in a different path. I’d just be shocked, Eric, if you What is he stamp it? What does he average next year? I think I think it’ll be maybe 21. Oh, I’m going to go high. I’m going to say average is like 25 a game. Damn. I’m going to I’m going to say $1. I’m going to say 22 points. Yeah, I think 22. I’m going to go up to 22. 22. That feels right cuz again, yeah, he should be featured. He will be featured. We know the man can shoot, but we also know that there’s times the man cannot shoot, you know. That is true. Like in the playoffs, but he was hurt. That’s not Well, I don’t think he’ll be doing that next season. Yeah, that’s exactly the playoffs. Going to the playoffs. Maybe not getting hurt. We’ll see. Yeah, I don’t know. Being the featured guy, he’s you know, how many minutes did Porter play last? 34 per game. Maybe he’ll get a tiny bit more than that. probably not much more. Um, he’ll definitely be put in a lot of positions where he’ll be asked to score. Yeah. So, let me ask you this. What is What is your guys overall feeling with the subtle shade that Michael Porter Jr. has been levying towards the Denver Nuggets? Not it’s not overt. It’s not outright rude. He’s not just coming for the Nuggets, but there are a couple things that Nuggets fans feel Nuggets fans feels like they have to answer for the practice facility. Oh, because he went and toured the Nets practice. I saw that he said and he’s now he’s been working. They got me working harder than I’ve ever worked in my whole life. Well, that that’s more of a that’s more of a strike against like Mike than I think. Well, but the the again, you know, like this whether or not um this is actually a criticism he is subtly or just something you say when you’re on a new team or something you’re being exactly or when you don’t work out for like a a couple days, right? Do do you guys take anything from the comments that have come out uh from Michael Porter Jr. that make you a little put you in that kind of bone state of mind where you’re like I mean the practice court thing sucks. It just every time that gets brought up it sucks. It just reality. Yeah. But I think with Mike it’s too earnest painfully so at times to be shade. I think it’s literally just oh wow this is cool. You know what I mean? He’s just speaking honestly right. Doesn’t realize he’s accidentally talking about how his new girlfriend’s kind of hotter than his last. I finally have a hot practice facility wise because they did step down in some important areas, but the practice facility very shiny, very new. Look, here’s the thing. Obviously, you build a practice facility, you don’t win a championship the next year. I think it’s cool when teams invest in that stuff. And if I were an athlete, I would also absolutely, you know, you think you have an idea of what it’s like to be in the NBA, but you’ve been in one place. It’s just interesting to go and be like, “Oh, they do things differently here, better or worse.” Mike in his uh his video on his Curious Mike channel, very uh curious about the floating pool. The Nets had a pool that I’m guessing they just pump a lot of salt into and you just float in it. I’m pretty curious myself having heard that now for the first time. Yeah, sounds cool. But no, the Nets have like a definitely a better training facility now. They have a good looking practice court, but that’s how they get that. I mean that that hurts a little bit, but it it’s kind of whatever. The thing about him getting worked harder than he ever has. I mean, like, dude, don’t you work out with your own guys during the summer in offseason? Aren’t those your guy your trainers and stuff? Maybe that’s the issue. So, I don’t I mean, that’s probably him just talking. Yeah, that Yeah, I think it’s just stuff you say. By the way, I want to bump my prediction up to 24 points. Here we go. 24 points for selling a little short. I do too. I got 22. You had 25. You had 24. Okay. 22 for me. Jeremy Grant can average 22 a game. on the Pistons. Mike can average 25 a game on the Nets. I don’t know that I You know what? 22. Whatever. Can you pull up that last comment? They need to keep the redacted practice court. It puts the dog in them to be in the train. That’s so true. Listen, the there’s there’s a real thing in the world of hockey known as the the difference between the normal people and the cake eaters. The people that have a nice life. They eat cake for every meal. They’re catered to and then they come to a dirty rundown sport like the hockey and then they have to Well, who practice in a family skating? Yeah. Well, it’s family fun. They they they want things to be fun. The Avalanche are a fun organization. They have somehow a very worse practice facility than the Nuggets. Yeah. Dude, if you’re mad about the Nuggets If you’re mad about the Nuggets practice facility, just think of the fact that the ABS have to make sure that um it’s a free skate time before they’re able to Family skate ends at 12, so we can practice at 1. They’re like, “Guys, we have to push um practice back. Um there’s a birthday party.” So, they do quite literally walk through a children’s arcade to get to their practice. Yeah, you got to walk through Lollipop Forest as a as the greatest NHL athlete on the on earth. Nathan McKinnon has to set his belongings probably in a public locker. They have to ask the coaches if they have a quarter. Let’s hit a break. Get some some more news notes on the other side. Then we’ll go bold predictions. Hell yeah. And then new segment to round out the show. Dude, I can’t freaking wait. I’m excited for it, too. Whether you’re on the road or at home or at the practice facility, somewhere in between. First bake makes banking easy, convenient, and secure. I like those words because I tend to make life harder for myself. very inconvenient and you are deeply insecure. I’m a wildly insecure person. So, I like when banks are not any of those things. I know that First Bank is not. 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I do not remember what the last uniform I do. They had dots up and down the side. They had like a The craziest thing is that when I was in Serbia last time and I attempted to buy one of the jerseys, unavailable. You just can’t get them. Not available. No team store, brother. I spent the thing is is like in Serbia there are 8 billion of the same stores which is like they they sell tennis shoes and full sweatuits as you might imagine because that’s basically the usual when what you’re thinking is exactly what you’re getting you know but I was like you know I’m a hat I’m a hatsman a gentleman that enjoys wearing a hat so I was like I want to get like a partisan hat or a red star hat or what whatever like I want to get a whatever unavailable you cannot buy hats there they don’t wear them and You can’t get people do not wear a lot of hats. No, they don’t wear them at all. And when they say when they say uh sports gear or whatever, they just mean Nike sweatuits. So, I couldn’t You can’t find anything there. There was one has to be passed down like an heirloom, a family heirloom. Yeah, dude. So, I Anyway, so they had dots on the side. Now, they have a solid stripe. Uh they had a much more boring font. Now, it has an arc to it. Um these are pretty basic. They look but they’re, you know, it’s classic. It’s fine. Everyone in Serbia will hate them. They’ll think they’re very boring. I’ve noticed that that’s kind of the trend. Every time Serbia comes out with a new uniform, they the Serbs uh stop if you’ve heard this before. Feel uh underrepresented and disrespected. No, not by Peak. Um so, well, that that was my biggest note. They were with Peak. Oh, these are Nike and they’re now with Nike. Oh, good luck, Serbia. You’re going to get some rotten uniforms coming up. Get get ready for the uh icon edition and the uh Yeah. Yeah. Statement edition Serbia uniform. Well, now that they’re Nike, actually, maybe I will be able to find them because again, there are a lot of Nike. Let’s go, dude. I’ll see what I can do. Let’s get hundreds of them. Right. Like before they were sponsored by Peak. I don’t even know what Peak is. No, it’s it’s a valley. It’s a n more of a nadier, I would say. Yeah, that’s good word play. Um but Eurob basket is coming up. First game for Serbia is August 27th. That’s not far at all. It’s a month. It’s about a month out. But I did see that there was a report Luca Donuch who was also playing in Euro Basket. He is probably reporting to the Slovenian national team around August 4th, which isn’t that far away. That’s like a little over a week away. So, we’re a week away from getting photos of Luca where he looks like unnaturally skinny. Well, we were we’ve already got those, but but those were old. We’re going to get new ones like new Nico awoke the beast or Yeah, this demon is whatever. And then then we’ll get then a corresponding suite of photos of him just like sucking on a hookah over and over and over. I don’t think for me it’s pretty consistent which which is with how I’ve always viewed Luca, which is will get in shape for team Slovenia, will not do it for your franchise. Out of shape. Yeah. right? Most just refuses to. Well, I look forward to it. I look I always like there nothing makes me happier than best shape of my life photos or working on a new shot uh video. Mhm. Yeah. You really love them. Well, I just love like remember when James Harden invented that new one shot one foot shot three-pointer. Yeah. That then that he never took the NBA by the way, Marine Johannes, who takes them all the time. Yeah. There’s another guy there’s another guy named Nikolai Joic that does that basically over and over and over. But yeah, the James Harden demon. Yeah, we did never see that. Not one time ever. We talked about it multiple times and we got no zero instances. The actual point I was getting at is that we might see photos of Jokic maybe joining. Well, we’ve been team Serbia. Dude, we’ve got we’ve been getting a heap and helping of Jokic. We really have. This is like the most Jokic we’ve ever gotten in the offseason. Maybe two. No, I’m just Yeah, I know. It kind of is like a little bit a little bit more mystery. a little less history if you know what I mean. How are we excited for Yokic in uh Eurob Basket? Of course, dude. I lit I literally can’t wait. I love you’re I This is my uh the greatest gift delivered to us through the Nicola Yokic experience that it goes un uh unspoken about, but just like true appreciation for Euro Hoops is like it’s cool. It’s cool to like be you just have like a whole new world that’s opened up to you and you’re like, “Oh, wow. This is actually really interesting.” there’s like a bunch bunch of like NBA guys that used to be there and then you know like then what the Europeans are all very proud of it’s like you have exquisitely hostile environments to play basketball in front of and like it’s just interesting. So I love Euro Basket. Yeah, I’m really excited for it too. No official confirmation Yoke is playing, but we all think he is. I saw Nola Yovic just committed to play for the team, so it seems like Wow, he was able to get away from whatever he’s doing now. Yeah, he he he’s not able to. He’s not too worn out from the season. Let me guess. Is Pu going to be on the team? Pull his I don’t know, man. His star’s kind of faded recently, but um I know we all think Y’s going to play. So Oh, yeah. Hopefully that we get confirmation on that soon. I can’t wait. Um let’s look ahead to next season, guys. I thought this would be a good time of the off season to throw out some bold predictions. Oh boy. for next year. We started off with those Michael Porter Jr. scoring totals. Yeah, we got bold. You guys got pretty bold. I got very mildly bold. Yeah. Um, so I thought we could all go around and throw out some bold predictions. I probably went in a different direction with mine than you guys did. Who Who wants to start? Should I start? Do you want to start? Go. We should go one one one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I like that. Snake style. We’ll tra Yeah. We’ll we’ll thank you all in the chat to rate each one of our um bold predictions with a with a letter grade and then we’ll average them out and we’ll see. Stop the podcast. We’ll wait. Am I not giving you guys pepper grades? No, you should. That’d be fine. That’s fine. It doesn’t matter. Eric wanted to get complicated. I just want to like I want to be able at the end be like, “All right, I just want to win this segment. That’s all.” Oh, yeah. You want to understand how I win. All right. My first bold prediction. David Adelman is gonna win coach of the year. What? That is a scorching hot. Holy coach. David is gonna win coach of the year. Oh my god. I think I burned myself on that take. Hold on. Wow. What? I actually though in this 4 seconds I’ve had to process this, I actually can see it. See, he is in the style of coach that they like to award. First year coach. Yep. has a team that yes, it’s a very good team, but they’re also getting some new pieces. And look, I think the Nuggets are going to have a better regular season than they did last year, and they finished fourth. I think, you know, they’re probably going to be first or second in the West most likely. I think that he’s going to reconfigure some stuff with the bench that’s going to be eye opening and there might be this narrative out there that, oh my god, the Nuggets are actually okay with Joic off the floor. How’d they do it? David Adelman did it. Holy smokes, dude. You could have saved that till the last round and nobody else was going to come up with that one. I just wanted to start with the bang, dude. And he has a little he he he seems like the uh um good version of Dagonal, you know, like just like that like nerdy thinking coach that the NBA loves to award now. Like the Hall of Fame coach. Yeah, man. Like the what’s the uh the guy the Boston guy Brad Stevens? Like nerdy wimpy coaches that they they love to award. Wow. Damn. It’s like we put together the tiers of the Western Conference, you know, the other day and, you know, to to win coach of the year, you got to finish in that top tier. You know, you got to have one of the best records in your conference. It’s probably going to be I I think the Thunder, you know, the Nuggets and the Rockets, and then maybe the Clippers in that top tier. Which coach out of all those is most likely to win coaches? I think it’s Ad. Here’s the thing, too, is that um Coach Malone got the boiled frog approach to Nikico. like he got it started off cold. He got better better better. But then by the time he was good, he was not given credit for what Nicola Joic had turned into at all. He got no credit for any of it. He everyone just was like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got you got Jokic.” But um he never got to really benefit from Wow, what a great take. I love it. Oh, thank you. I wasn’t expecting that response. It’s fantastic. I love it. I you know, there’s no way it’s going to happen, obviously, but it I do think it’s interesting. Well, that’s why it’s a bold prediction. Yeah. Yeah, they’re not supposed to be true. Uh, all right. Um, I’m going to predict I predicted yesterday. Everybody’s predicting it. It’s not bold at all. It’s quite wimpy. And I’m going to bet I’m going to say next year Jamal Murray Allar. Here we go. Allar. It’s been repeated over and over. It’s not unique in any way, shape, or form. You’ve been saying it’s the year of Jamal Murray. It’s the year of Jamal Murray. I don’t think it’ll happen, but I’m saying it. Let’s go. four peppers because like he’s got the talent but it’s never happened so I’m not confident. That was mine but it it kills the rest of my order. So you guys genuinely believe this could be a thing. I do. I really do. I think I think it could very well could. My real reason why and it’s a hot take. It’s not right. And not to speak for you. Hot take. It’s not like it’s not here’s what I think will happen. It’s here was what might happen in in a bold scenario. The benchm minutes could just be different enough. Yep. where it’s not feudal for him and he can tap. So some of those same minutes he’s already burning. He’s actually logging some points uh or assists, not just kind of getting some cardio in. So I think that could be it. That could booy him. Do you think his stats look that much different from last year? I think that they he’s because they’ve looked pretty much identical for these last four seasons. I’d say end of year stats are always good enough to be an all-star scoring 20 points a game blah blah blah. But the problem is that they start off so rotten. He just never plays well during the portion of the season where all stars are determined, right? The first two months. Yeah. The first two months. So like by the end if he’s just plays like as he normally does, that is all-star caliber, but it’s like it’s always a timing issue. Mhm. I could see it. Um I think it’s going to be most dependent on the team success for sure. I think I think I think maybe Jamal has a little better start to the season, but like if the Nuggets aren’t number one in the West. Yeah. You know what’s not You know what’s not happening if that’s if they’re not number one in the West? David Allen is not winning coach of the year. I’ll tell you that right now. Okay. I like it. All right. Well, that would have been mine. So, I have to scramble to replace that one with another one. Stretch five. Stretch five. There was a flow to my list. Stretch five. That is completely dead now. But I do have another pick that I am excited to make in place of that and it’s one that I will make guys that I absolutely will make on this show on the other side of this break just calling the break his own shot. Unbelievable. I work here too. Dang it. All right. We can all call a prick whenever we want. Whatever you want. Nope. Doesn’t work that way. Now I’d like to bring in our sponsor Hooters. Like first of all it’s the middle of segment two. Join DNVR for our 2025 summer pickle ball tournament at Chicken and Pickle. When is this? What is the date? Great question. Glad you asked. August 2nd at 10 a.m. I’m playing. Well, it’s at 10 a.m. Did you hear that part? Oh, I’m out. All right. It’s $29 for an individual. 55 bucks to sign up as a team. 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Restrictions apply. Visit Empire today/DMVR for full details. All right, we’re back on the DMV podcast. Bold prediction time. Vote. I got high expectations though. This is my one serious one actually. Okay, one of Julian’s father Peyton Watson gets traded. Whoa. Oh, call it. Who gets traded? One of calling it feels like particularly disrespectful to one of them, but I honestly feels like it could be one or the other. I mean, it’s our job. I’m going to do it just to be disrespectful. I agree. I’m going to say Payton. Wow. Payton because for what? For what? What kind of return? I have no idea yet. Okay. This is this is a bold prediction, not a premonition. I think this is not an a down on Payton take. This is uh is Payton in a position to succeed with the way this all looks right now. Interesting. If he gets on the floor, it’ll be a backup four or there will be some competition. Will he get to play with Joic? Maybe it’ll be backup four. We’re theorizing still. So, I’m going to say maybe maybe Payton gets traded. Although, having said that, I mean, Julian is also I think as of right now the one who’s outside of the rotation. So, it could be him as well. It really could be. Very spicy. Very spicy. Spicy. All right. Am I crazy for thinking like Payton Watson is needed on this team right now? No. No. I don’t think we have no defenders, right? It’s kind of gone under the radar a little bit. It’s a good point, man. It’s a good point. Maybe the defense. They haven’t really made any changes on paper that would signal Well, they got they did get Bruce Brown much improved. They did get Bruce Brown and Big Val. Well, I mean Big Val, is he a defender? I don’t I don’t really think more so than say Zeke Naji at the five and I mean Russell Westbrook was good defensively last year. Bruce Brown is replacing him. Cam Johnson I think that’s a little bit I don’t remember that game I got can’t even remember who it was against but I maybe it was against the Timberwolves I’ve assumed since we lost every time uh we went up against them but or maybe it was against the Thunder whatever when it was just a one-on-one Russell Westbrook versus the point guard and they like got up and then the guy just drove right by I mean, yeah, that’s it was like Okay. Well, oh yeah, I think it was someone. It was the Portland Trailblazers. Oh, was it? Yeah, it was the Portland Trailblazers. Scoot scoot. The reason I’m I’ve got some hope for PEW this year is just that this roster needs him. They need his defense. Like, they don’t really have anybody else that’s that kind of profile on that end of the floor. So, a direct refutation of of Oh, I’m not No, it could very well happen. I’m just saying. Okay. All right. Getting Go to your next take, please. Please. Well, you’re you’re Oh, we’re sneaking. Are we sneaking it? We are sneaking. Okay. All right. Well, my next one then, now you need to remember spiritually that my first pick was Jamal Murray making an all. Okay. Which is a take you may have heard before, which is a take some people believe will never happen, right? Which is why I have Bull winning most improved player of the year. Bull. What? I’m sorry. I don’t have enough for one team. You just broke the pepper scale, guys. I’m kidding. I don’t know what team he plays for. I don’t I don’t know what team Bobo plays for. Oh, that wasn’t a serious prediction. Well, it is. I’m putting it out there for the sake of I don’t even think he’s on a team right now. I don’t think he is. I just wanted to say that it feels kind of spiritually similar to Murray making All-Star except one of those might happen and the other one won’t. B. Oh my god. I’m just kidding, by the I really So, what is your real take then? I don’t. My real take then since I can’t take Bo. You can take B. Like I’m not going to. I’m not going to. I want to I want to Let me I have Malik Beasley beating the Charges. Whoa. Just to be clear, which charges? And he didn’t last time. Just kidding, guys. You can’t do that. You can’t do that. I gotta be serious. I have Rudy Goar offering the best quote of the season from any NBA player. Whoa. What? Wait, what’s what’s going on right now? That are you on chat joke? Fine. Let’s get serious. I have Michael Porter Jr. leading the nets and assists. Oh, okay. With a team of all facilitators and he’s the big score. Hey, listen. Can’t tell if he’s serious or not. I have I have one left on this list. What is happening? He’s just unloading insane tanks. I get taller. Well, all right. Uh, you don’t see that happening? Sure. I don’t know. Again, I don’t see height. I don’t see color. I don’t see height. Like, I look at this. I look at my shirt. I’m like, which is Dev and which is me? Which is which of us is the shortest? I don’t even know. Um, okay. Well, those are great uh entertainment uh level takes. Okay, I’ll go my take. Okay, dude. Let’s get this thing back on the on the R. My take is that I believe Zeke Naji will be a functional member of the Denver Nuggets. He will get regular minutes. Wow. Power forward. The Denver Nuggets not as a five, as a four. Zeke Naji will be award member of the Denver Nuggets. That’s my take. So, I don’t think it’s the craziest take and I think it just depends solely on how many minutes he plays next to Yoke. Yeah, sure does. If he plays some Yeah, I could see it happening. If he plays kind of like he did last year in that role, I I don’t see it happening. Okay, that sounds like a three out of five pepper take. It could happen or not happen. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that’s the thing. like a bold. It’s a perfect bold take because it’s it’s like a real take. Yeah. But everyone’s going to go, “Oh, it’s never going to happen.” So, it’s bold, right? It’s perfect. Yeah. Well, but Yeah. And then I get This is my thing where I I said that Julian Strer would win us a playoff game and then I got called out for it and then he won the next game for us. You did do that. Yes. It was incredible. I did do that. That’s right. All right. I’ll go to my next bold take here. The Nuggets next season will have three players who make 175 plus three-pointers. Uh G give me a a baseline. What does that what does that look who who did anyone hit 175 three-pointers last year for us? Michael Porter had 193 last year. 193 and he was the leader. He was the leader. Jamal Murray was second at 156. You have how many making 17? I said three. This upcoming season. Yeah. Who are the three? Yeah. Name name those nuggets. Jamal Murray. Okay. All-Star Jamal Murray. Um Cam Johnson. Okay. All-Star Cam Johnson. And I put Tim Hardaway Jr. on this list. That one feels a little bit more tenuous. That’s a more tenuous proposition as a uh we don’t even know if he’s going to get a roll. So I don’t think Tim Hardaway is going to hit 175. That’s that’s just a straight lie. But I think he he’s going to hit more threes than people think. Do you know how many he hit last year? 168 be so funny if but he was a he was a starter. I should change this to 150. 153. Yeah. All right. He had 168 last year, 211 the year before, 212 the year before that. Dang. The guy gets him up. Okay. So, him, Cam Johnson, and Jamal Murray hitting 1503s. I feel like that could be very possible with how this Nuggets offense might look next year. Interesting. Interesting. Okay. By dropping it to 150, does it lose its boldness a little bit? Is it just a take now? Upgraded it from five to 175 was ambitious. 150 would be pretty crazy though. Okay. To all all three of those. All right. My turn. Sure. I’m back. Okay. I believe my bold take for the Denver Nuggets in the upcoming season. I believe Cam Johnson, yes, will outpace Michael Porter Jr.’s production in every facet on the Nets or Porter production? Porter’s Denver Nuggets production. Cam Johnson will outpace it in every facet. So, you think he’ll average more points? Average more points. Average more rebounds. Average more rebounds. Average more assists. Average more assists. Well, that would be pretty easy. Yeah, we didn’t need to do the last one. I’ll give it four because the rebounds. Mike was really monster on the boards last year. Not all the time. Some of the time. I mean, statistically, just on average, way more so than Cam, which does make it bold, which is what makes it bold. Outpace in every facet. This is what makes it bold. Yeah. I It’s a bold take. Thanks. B take. But I like it. All right. Here’s another one for me. Nicole Yog. Yeah, we’re we’re cutting off. We’re joking. Did you have any more vote? No, I’m not allowed. just unre I could tell it wasn’t going to work, so I just let them all go at once. Nicola Joic will lead the NBA in assists per game next season. Oh, where was he on that on that list last year? Well, this is why it might not be that bold. He was second last year. Second best, dude. Trey Young. Trey Young. Trey Young 11.6 assists per game. Nicole Joic 10.2 assists per game. That’s a big leap. Uh, that is bold. 1.4 assists per game and the Hawks added some players. Yeah, that’s a NUS did too. That’s a leap. I don’t I don’t see it happening, but I do love your boldness, sir. But I do think the idea that Nico could average 11 rebound or 11 assists a game is insane, but very much on the table. Yeah, generally speaking, I think, you know, Y’s points drop slightly. His assists go up. This is I mean listen I but I I mean I think he’ll finish second again. I think but I I believe he’ll finish second again. Yeah. I have a bold prediction. The Nuggets win three games against the Wolves this year. Oh, that’s a great one. Golly, my my soul could use that one. That’d be massive. I want it. But that’s a hot take. Yeah, it’s got it’s bold. It shouldn’t be bold, right? That’s a good bold in the Toyota chat there. Uh the Nuggets split with the Wizards, [Laughter] but the the Wolves no longer have Nquille Alexander Walker. That is a massive deal. Yeah, it matters. It’s ma It’s massive. Okay. Uh let’s see. My next prediction. I believe the Denver Nuggets this next season that the bench the bench will be a positive a positive I believe the bench unit for your excuse me my Denver Nuggets will at year’s end be in the positive as far as plus minus is concerned that’s a crazy bolt has not happened in the yokera Yeah, that’s right. Incredibly bold. Salute to you, sir. I see it. I see it. You know why? It’s all new people. Yeah, it’s all new people and it feels like people that should be uh you know, able to make it happen. I just uh I felt good about last year going in with Russell Wilson leading Russell Wilson. I can do that 8 million more times. Russell Westbrook. Yep. Leading the bench unit. You do that one a lot. I do that a lot. It’s just two old castoffs that I used to hate that you had to learn to love and then are allowed to hate again. Right. Um. Right. But it’s uh it didn’t really manifest last year. I’m not sure if you remember, but I just I man a solid guy in the middle. Obviously, the one is still up for, you know, we’re going to figure out who’s playing the one, but everyone else I feel good about. Mhm. All right. I have a hot take. Go for it. Christian Brown’s points go down, but he makes second team all defense. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That’d be the first player to make all defense in the Yokoa. Got to be, right? Has to be. Uh KCP never actually made it on any of this list, right? No. No. Not first team. Turns out no team. How How many teams are there? Is it just two? First. Yeah, first and second. Okay. Well, tough. That That’s a bold take. I think it’s a good take. It’s a bold one. I I think it’s a good one. Like Christian Brown’s offense obviously jumped a ton last season and I don’t know if the Nuggets need it as much this year, although he’ll probably have a pretty similar year offensively. But yeah, I think it’s he’s in a prime spot for his defense to level up. I wonder if it has anything to do with his contract this year. Like if he gets extended this off season and it’s locked up, he’s not worried about his offensive production as much. Yeah, that’s a good point, Cal. We’ll see. We’ll see. All right. Ready? I’ve got another prediction. Go for it. I believe universally all around Nuggets Nation. Mhm. We will declare the biggest leap made on the Nuggets this year will be made by Julian Strather. Whoa. Julian Strather will make the biggest leap between last year and this year with every player considered. So, I think the other candidates are Nicole Joic. Yeah, I don’t believe Nicole I believe Nicole Yokic will be better, but how can he possibly make a huge Whoa. Two fun ones that came in at the same time in the chat. Yes. Nuggets winning the inseason tournament. That’s a great bold. I hope not. That means that they’re a clown organization that has no chance to win to win the the finals. The the Lakers, the uh the Bucks. The Bucks. Yeah, I hope not. But listen, that’d be fun. Um, but yes, I believe Julian Strather will make the biggest leap of any nugget. I have another bold prediction for you guys that I just thought of. Jamal Murray scores 60 points in a game. Whoa. 60. How many How many free throws involved? A bunch. Many. He had 55 last year. He had a double nickel last year. Only needs five more points. He did have a double nickel. I mean, and I was just looking back at that 55point game Murray had against Portland, 20 for 36, 7 to 15 from three. I feel like he could hit more than seven threes in a game. He only also went to the line nine times in that game. It was kind of a weird, you know, typically in these 67 point games, they, you know, you either hit a ton of threes or a ton of free throws. He didn’t really do either. Dang. He had a lot of twos. 22s or uh sorry, 13 twos he had in that game. Dang, that’s a lot of twos, bro. Reminds me of high school. Jamal Murray for 60, dude. JM for 60. Flush that joke out. What even? Never mind. Yeah, just like every unattract like that would mean 22. That would that’s a lot just like a lot of time involved. It’s like a lot of really unattractive people. Welcome against the Phoenix High School, too. Yeah, dude. There’s not that many There’s not that many twos running around any high school. Like a two is rough. Oh man. Um, okay. I got another I got another one for you. I got another one for you, fellas. I believe in the upcoming season for the Denver Nuggets. Don Holmes will deliver meaningful minutes and a meaningful role. He will be not just That’s the perfect bull prediction because you could really Yeah. I’ll be like I’ll be like that was meaningful. You’re like, I guess has really nailed the perfect three pepper takes all day. Well, why is that a three- pepper take? He’s a rookie in years in years past. That would mean he was exiled to the bench. I don’t believe he’ll be exiled to the bench. I believe he will actually be a big member of like he’ll actually get real minutes with the Denver Nuggets next year and be and be uh good. What month does that come in? Uh, probably it probably takes a month or two. Yeah. Around around January. Around Christmas time. Yeah. December, Januaryish. Around Christmas. Around Christmas. Okay. I think Jokic could get a 2525 game this year. 25 points, 25 rebounds, 25 assists. 25 assists. Wow. He did a 30 2020 20 last year. Yeah, but that was like do a 30 2020 20 last year. 25 assists. Give yourself 30 peppers. 25 assists would be so crazy. What is the What? What’s I don’t know about 30 peppers. What about like seven peppers? Scott Scott Scotty had 30 assists. Scotty had 30 assists one time. I know. This is the most shooters probably ever had around him. Were they just not in the passing lanes? Were they just not guarding his teammates? Scotty, I’m going to bring up the box score for that game. Let me see what actually happened here. I bet a lot of Funny enough, of course, it was against the Nuggets. Okay. But did he have did he have Shaquille O’Neal on his team? Okay. How many of those assists went to Shaquille O’Neal just dumping on Shaquille O’Neal not on the Orlando team? Whoa. He also scored 22 points. Yeah. 2230 game for Scott Skyles. Dang. In 44 minutes. Who does this go to? Who’s he? Uh let’s see here. Hardway. He kind of spread it around to be honest, man. He really spread it around. Um, 10 to Terry Catledge. Dang. Eight to Dennis Scott, seven to Nick Anderson, 10 to Jerry Reynolds, six to Otis Smith, five to Michael Ansley, five to Jeff Turner. Those are all certified forgettable players in the NBA. That is a That got even more impressive. I just assumed he just gave it to Sha. So this game So I’m looking at the box score. Magic Nuggets December 30th, 1990. the Scott Skylles game. Two just all-time bad teams. The Nuggets were 6 and 23. The Magics were seven and 23. Was Scott Hastings on that team? Um, doesn’t look like Was Joe Wolf on that team? Joe Wolf. Yeah. 32 minutes. Was who else is on this team? Tim Leggler 21 minutes. No, Tim Leggler played in this game. We got to ask Tim Le about How has this never been brought up? Tim Leeler played 21 minutes off the Nuggets bench in this game. Dang. Had three points, one of five shooting. Rough game from Tim. I’m not sure he had all NBA honors that game. That’s hilarious, man. That’s crazy. All right. Are we done with bold predictions? Any others? You feel like you want to get off? I had Nuggets have the best offense, but that’s not that bold. Boring. Boring. Anything you got any other uh jokey? No, I got them all out in one bit. Once I could tell it wasn’t going to work, I was like, we’re not going to drag this out. You’re like, I’m not going to waste them all out. Yeah, but no, we got one laugh and we’re going to squeeze the rest in. Okay, those are pretty good. Those are those are pretty good bold takes. I mean, listen, if those if some of those bold takes happen, it’s going to be a great year to be a Denver Nuggets fan. Wait, is that is that for real? The assists where he broke the record like the defender. Oh my god. I hope that’s the case. I hope that’s the case. I hope he went through his legs. He nutmeg legs. He just got him on like the worst ball fake ever. Like was like whoa. All right, let’s uh let’s move on here. Last segment of the day to wrap up Casual Friday. I thought we’d debut a new segment that I’m calling nostalgia corner. Nostalgia corner. Nostalgia corner. And this segment it works very easily. Uh Kale is going to put a player on the screen. Okay. And we’re going to talk about him. Let’s do it. Yeah. Just a couple of guys, just guys hanging out talking about player up in Nostalgia Corner. Who is it, man? Oh, J.R. Smith. J.R. Smith. Dude, there’s been a lot of J.R. Smith highlights going around lately. Yeah, there has been. The the one where it’s like, I just saw a man fly. Um, my favorite part about J.R. Smith was I would always make sure I would get to the arena early because his warm-up routine was absurd. And it got more ridiculous the longer you watch. Like, how he just kept moving further and further and further back. That’s so amazing. And so then like and Steph Curry had not been like Steph Curry wasn’t a thing at that point. So you just never even saw anybody like he would get, you know, he’d start from like 5t behind the three-point line and then by the end he was just shooting from the logo and it was just like oh my god that’s incredible. So then every time he would get the ball we’d just be like shoot it regardless of where he was on the court. You know I just loved J.R. Smith. He just no one cared less but did more. He was kind of um you know how everybody says LaMelo Ball plays like he has AirPods in? Yeah, that was J.R. Smith. That’s such a good such a good description of the way he plays. Jr. Smith truly like if it’s like a little boy at a pickup game in the park, woke up one day and was just an NBA player and they like get out there and he’s just did what you know he’s like all Kobe like he was like a top five talent in the league. Sure. Do you think LaMelo Ball ever says his own full name like an NBA game like while he’s playing? LaMelo. Yeah. Yeah. There’s there’s an old there’s an old there’s an old um what’s the word I’m looking for? Rumor that LeShawn McCoy, is that his name? Shady. That is a guy. He went to pit, I believe, if I have this right. And and there was an interview with one of his teammates who said in practice he would say his full name every time he jked you. Lad juke you. And I do feel like LaMelo Ball does that in NBA games. Interesting. Yeah. I mean J.R. Smith was incredible. Uh he and George Carl almost killed each other. That was that would be imagine George Carl coaching lamelo ball or MPJ. I mean George Carl like you know George Carl was brought to his knees by that team. Like they just absolutely were like all yeah whatever. That was the ultimate like yeah whatever. Like outside of PJ Carissimo getting choked out by Latrell Spear pretty well. I would say a player and coach combination have never worked less than George Carl and J.R. Smith. But what beautiful times. I missed it. Beautiful times. I was in middle school during these years and let me just say J.R. Smith’s Q score with 13year-olds was really the coolest player ever. Coolest player. He was everybody’s favorite player. Yeah, cuz he shot he shot threes from behind. Like what? And at 13, unless you’re an honest sicko, you’re not like here’s a list of my best perimeter defenders in the Well, that’s not a really efficient shot. Yeah. Yeah. You’re going like, “This guy’s sick.” You’re like, “Oh, nice team defense, you idiot.” Backside rotation. You’re right. Keep going on nostalgic corner. Oh, Wilson Chandler brothers. I love love love The reason I’m sitting here, man. The reason I’m sitting here today is because of Wilson Chandler. I The first sports design I ever did that was in the the vein of what I do now. I drew an illustration of Wilson Chandler because I just I was just really enamored with him. I just love his look. I love his vibe. I love his aura. Um and plus he was just like so workmanlike. I just He in love with Wilson Chandler, bro. That was that was a lot. I love Wilson Chandler. If he’s watching, which I’m sure he is, please give me a ring or just DM me. Um, but I drew a cartoon of him and he used it as his avatar and it was like the most thrilling thing that ever happened to me. And I was like, “God damn.” And then he was like, “Oh, he used your drawing as his avatar.” Yes. And then he was like, “Yeah, you made my day, bro.” on via Twitter. And I was like, and I like took a screenshot and I was like very pumped up by it. So then I turned that into a shirt and then I made other shirts and I now I’m here. So, you have no one but ill will to be mad at if you don’t like if you don’t like the fact that I’m on this podcast, blame ill will. Blame ill Will. People also blame him for game 82. I like to think where he scored zero points. He walked so that others could get even more stoned. True. He was really the originator of Yeah, I’m high. Everybody knows it and it’s cool. I love Dude, Ill Will was my other guys are flying high cuz he watched first. He was so great though. I I really love uh Will I used to call him baby neck. It was good stuff. Hill cuz he had a tattoo of a baby on his uh on his uvula. I guess his Adam’s apple. Let’s go. Next one. Oh, Edward Nah. Eddie Nahara. I don’t have a lot of thoughts on Eddie Nahara. Eddie Nahara was like that was the era where everybody just had a 68 white guy off the bench who didn’t have any skill. I got to tell you, we’re back in that era now. Was he just Blacko by the way? Yeah. That’s what I mean. We have we have silently returned to that era screen. Yeah. It’s just they’re no longer from South America. They’re exclusively from Europe. You’re from Europe. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What else? Oh, the man. Reed, bro. Did you? Did you see the video? This is the first Dline shirt I ever bought. Yeah. I had one for him. This was the three shirts I made. I went one for Wilson and Chandler, one for Manimal, and one for the Denver Nugs, which was a weed shirt. He’s he’s playing in Italy right now for Did you have Reiana, did you see the video that I put up the other day of us uh me recording the TV back in the day where uh Manimal recorded 19 points and 19 rebounds and they were interviewing after the game and he was like all they’re like 19 points and 19 rebounds. He was like are we in overtime? No, we’re not. Okay, we’re not. He was like he was like swword. He’s like I didn’t even know. And he’s like, “Oh, excuse me.” And it like couldn’t he’s like, “I didn’t even know.” It was very wholesome and very dirty at the same time. And nobody nobody pumped like we were talking about the most beloved nuggets the other day. Like people loved Kenneth Fared. Like when he came off the bench, he got his own he had his own sound effect. The man of you have your own sound effect when you come into a game good at it. That is like every single time. And like everyone be like, “Hell yeah.” because he was pure energy. He played so hard, man. So hard. He got the first on offense. He was the recipient of the He was the recipient of the very first Nico assist. And it was a dope one. It was It was a dime that he yammed down. He got a bunch of assists from Nicola Joic. Yeah. Fared was I just loved Kenneth Fared. He was just so Yes. And he was very underside. So he got undersized. He got pushed around on defense, but nobody outrebounded that guy. I so I remember when the Nuggets drafted him and the year before that he was at Morehead State and played in the tournament. I think they won that first round game and he had like 20 boards in that game and I picked him and we’re all like, “Yeah, man.” I remember Bill Simmons used to break down um I guess hype videos that they would people put together for recruiting purposes and he broke down the manimals. Yeah. And the one thing I remember is that he was critiquing the song that his friend put together. He’s like, “Oh, cuz it was a rap song.” He’s like, and here’s where it gets weird because the the line was like, he went to more head so he could get more head. Bill Sim’s like, I don’t like the turn it took there. All right, what else we got? Nostalgia Corner. Let’s go overtime. Let’s go to overtime. Finally. Join us on the internet. Conversation continues online.dvr.com worldwide web. Okay, so now I can say so Kenneth Freed they were like 19 rebounds and he’s like he’s like [ __ ] I don’t even know but it was like being you know it was going booming through the entire arena and on television he’s like oh excuse me talking to um my Stark he may have been talking to my He may have been talking to uh Ali Sterm Oh god what dark days that’s nostalgic corn dude if can we just make the Yes. Can we just make a uh a pro Katy Wy account? Like we you guys don’t realize. Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it. What a gift Katy Wii is to to this town, man. The days were rough before she was here. Uh Lionus Cla. Dude, Lionus had some Linus. Lionus Lennus is he he’s Lithuanian. Yes. Yeah, he had some Dude, that could be that guy could fill it up every now and again. He was like he was either he was the perfect compliment for that team he was on too. Yes. Yeah, he was a he was a he was a badass man. I loved Lus Clay. Yeah, Lis Clay was awesome. These are like the guy these are the names that I hear of beloved guys that I didn’t watch play. So, it just doesn’t I’m like, “All right.” You’re like, “Okay, that looks like one of the three stooges. Cool.” You Google them, you’re like kind of unimpressive, but people seem to like them a lot. Like looks like curly or shrimp from uh All right. Should we uh go to SuperJ? Was that the whole nostalgic quarter? I think there’s some more, bro. Give me one more. I love this. One more. One more. Dude sitting around talking about old nuggets. Keep going. Let’s keep going. Oh, Al Harrington. Bro, Al Harrington, the Ninja Turtle. Um I didn’t know that was his nickname. It wasn’t. It was unofficial and it was it was somewhat derisive. I mean, it was kind of mean. He sort of looked like a ninja turtle. Um also very wrinkly head. very wrinkly head. This is an elite D line. This is Dline. Al Harrington was one of the reasons that Carmemelllo Anthony left because when he was begging shot it too much. No. When he was begging for the front office to fill uh the team with great players around him. Al Harrington was the big move that they made. Yeah. And it was like, okay, what are we doing? But I loved I loved Al Harrington. I feel like Al Harrington was decent. I mean, sixman type of guy. He is. I’m just telling you like that was that was that was the final story. It was like Yeah. Melo was like I need to go be surrounded by Landry Fields. Yeah, dude. Unbelievable. All right, that was a good nostalgic corner. I feel dude more. Maybe we can bring this back. My heart is full. My heart is full. We’ll go back to it next week. Maybe. I love nostalgic corner. Can we look at like an old iPod or something while we’re at it? We’ve done this show long enough that it’s just going to be like Wancho Ernan Gomez. Yeah, I remember him. You’re like guy. Yeah, we drafted him in the fourth year of this show. Let’s hit these super chats. Maddox Otter Nuggets will have two players averaging nine plus assists. Yokic and Jamal with Denver’s new weapons. Jamal’s playmaking numbers will jump up big. I love this time of year. PS, MPJ All-Star game 25 and 10. I love this time of year. MPJ All-Star game isn’t the craziest take because he’s in the East. Not at all, dude. It’s very upsetting. That’s a good bold prediction. That is a good one. Uh Jamal averaged six assists last game. That’d be a big jump, but yeah, we’ll see. Makrew is getting Drew Holiday on the team a bold prediction or should I give up on my dreams? Also, why can’t Pwatt play as backup point guard? Well, he’s not a point guard. Patt, I don’t I don’t think his handle’s quite good, bro. That would be tragic. Like, if you had Chris, if you had Christian Brown playing backup point guard, we can see it. We’ve seen him in that role. Pwatt, that would be tragic. Uh Drew Holiday. So, it seems like the Blazers really want him cuz they want Give up your dreams. Give up your dreams next year. Give up your dreams. Also, I feel like Drew is going to be pretty washed soon. Like, is Christian Brown better than Drew Holiday? Maybe. I think we’re approaching that that this next year, maybe. Where if you’re trading for Drew, you’re like hoping it was a guy from two years ago, but you’re probably not getting it. Yeah. The same thing that every person that trades for Kevin Durant uh goes through. Oh, big big Namek with offseason moves done. I think it’s fair to say Ben Wallace did great, though. I wish Dline’s John Ben nickname stuck because they killed him, dude. That’s tough. Wow. All right, that’s tough. So, call back. Wow. I do not cosign that. Just kidding. I’m making my new pin tweet. All right. Um, fun show today, guys. Thanks for hanging out, bro. Just let’s go downstairs and just name more nuggets. Great casual Friday. Um, thanks for everybody tuning in. Throw us a thumbs up before we get out of here. Helps us grow the show. And everybody, have a good weekend. Stay safe. Enjoy the weather. We’ll talk to you on Monday. [Music] [Applause] We all sitting like the man.

What are your boldest predictions for the Denver Nuggets next season? Will Christian Braun take a leap? Can Jokic be better than ever? Harrison Wind, Brendan Vogt, and Eric Wedum (D-Line Co.) come to you LIVE from DNVR HQ to break down everything you need to know in this edition of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast!

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