Emotional Jokic, Scheming LeBron | DNVR Nuggets Podcast LIVE

Emotional Jokic, Scheming LeBron | DNVR Nuggets Podcast LIVE

[Music] Get down. [Music] Larger sizes of Eric. Larger sizes available, that’s for sure. Let’s go. Oh my god, we’re back. No, we’re so back, man. We are so back. What is up everybody? Welcome to the original podcast. We’re back. Let’s go. Live from the studio from the studio here at the MDR HQ. We got a great one lined up for you because there’s a lot of This is a weekend so there’s I say there’s a lot of news and notes. There’s a marginal amount of news and notes, dude. There’s a fair amount. There’s a fair There’s a decent amount. There’s a reasonable handful a large amount reasonable amount of news and notes. Some people look skinny. Some people are crying. Some people are on a boat. We’re going to talk about all of this. We’re also going to talk about 202526. That will be the year of what? It’s for us to fill in the blank. And then lastly, our favorite game. Our favorite game. And then lastly, and a little offseason haters ball. I feel like some of the people we people and teams we have hated for so long. I woke up this morning and I wondered, do I still hate them? Bro, can I just tell you hate never takes a vacation. Mine took a vacation. I’m going to be honest. It might have retired for some. But makes me hate you even more. For every retirement, there’s also a starter a new hatred that I find in my heart. So, we’ll go through all that. Harrison Wind is in the building. Oh, fellas. Had a great weekend. Was relaxing. Nice to nice to get away from the pod for a couple days. Yeah. Fired up to be back, man. Fired up. Fired up to be back, baby. Uh Dine Co is also here, but you guys can call him Eric. Please. I didn’t get away from the pot at all. I just sat in my living room talking about Yic. You were potting by yourself. I was like all, “What do you think?” And no one responded. Be so great if we found out Eric had a secret podcast. It’s been going on for so long, we just didn’t even know. Uh, but we’re going to start with our top story today. Yes. Nicola Yokic crying because his horse won back in the hippodromeome there in Sambore, Serbia. We know it very well. We’ve been there. You guys remember that? Yeah, we were. Um, but in all seriousness, there’s some layers to this onion. Tequale, do we have the video? Can we first play the video in case somehow you were not on the internet this weekend? This is Jokic’s response to his horse winning, getting over. I mean, look at he can’t even walk. Oh, now he’s big hug the run. I mean, he just can’t show his face because of how overtaken with emotion. He really truly is overtaking him. That looks like he’s very strong. Champagne. Some champagne. Look at that. Pouring it on the jockey. I mean, he’s really going all out right here. Wouldn’t you wouldn’t you say this is like I’m not saying it’s performative, but this is like he is completely lost control of the emotions here. Oh, he’s he’s he is fully overtaken by emotion. Yeah, fully overtaken. I mean, what is I mean, look, everybody talks about Yoke doesn’t show he wins the championship, the job is done, we can go home, doesn’t show a lot of emotion. Here, he shows an enormous amount. What does it make you think, Eric? Couple things. Um, after he won the NBA championship, we did see moments of excitement, happiness. He was very tired also right after the he he himself did not run in this horse race, so he was able to be a little bit a little bit more a little more energy for the celebration. But it is I mean like it’s been pointed out by anyone that’s able to make a Stitch uh video like the the stark difference between his celebration for the NBA championship and and this um it’s hilarious and I love it. Good for him. You know what I mean? I just love seeing the guy happy. I just love seeing Oh, we love seeing our guy happy. Yeah. I mean he is just so happy, man. I mean this is just raw happiness. Like I know unfiltered. He’s not hiding it. He’s not trying to like create some narrative. He’s not trying to package his response for a uh very clippable Twitter video. That’s a good point. Like this, you would never see LeBron James do this. He would like have a PR team that would like come up with the right response for him to gone crazy back in the day on Bronny’s videos and stuff. You see him really go crazy. This is just Yoke. I’m just getting early. Yeah, this is Yoke where he’s most comfortable, you know, in his helmet in Serbia at the horse track like celebrating what, you know, his true off the court passion is. Well, he did an interview in Serbian. Somebody on Reddit translated that interview. I assume they, you know, checked all their facts here. The Serbians, the Serbians responding to it seem to think so. Okay. He says after the game, he says, “I said it a long time ago that I experienced all of my greatest victories and all of my greatest defeats in this sport. horse racing. Horse racing. So, all the people who are here who are involved in the sport, they’re my buddies. They’re my friends. And it just means a lot. So, so I mean, here’s the thing. I think a lot of people look at this and try to either run to it like Yolk doesn’t love basketball or run from it, you know, oh, it’s misinterpreted or or what have you. But I actually think there is something important and poant here about it. I take Yogic at his word here. I actually think these are some of his most important wins and losses. And rather than think that means he doesn’t love basketball, I think he does. Basketball to win a championship takes everything out of you. Yeah, it is the culmination of a year and a lifetime’s worth of work. This is like pure sport. I mean, you have some details on the winnings here. What were the winnings for this event? So, from what I can tell, the purse for this specific race, 350,000 dinar. Oh my god, that’s a life-changing amount, obviously. Which I think is like $3,500. 35. So, Joic won $3,500 or his stable, his horse dream catcher stable. Oh my god. And that was the biggest purse for a race on this day. He goes on in his quote, by the way, to say, “It means so much more as for all of us. We are doing this as a hobby. This is for us an occasion to have fun.” But Eric, cuz I actually wanted to bring this up a while back. Somebody had asked one time, does covering the nuggets make you love them less and or does like doing this does it turn into a job? And I will say there are parts of this that I used to love a lot more that from doing it as a job I love less. I don’t think in totality I love it any less. In fact, I love it differently. I think from doing it. But I do resonate with the idea of Jokic is worth $500 million. He just won 3,000. He might as well won zero. This truly is a passion project and sometimes those are the most meaningful. Yeah. I mean like I don’t think that I mean this has been said 8 million times but this really cements it. if you weren’t aware is that Nikolai Yokic views basketball as duty and horse racing as passion. Yeah. And it doesn’t mean that any less effort goes into either. He’s a very dutiful man. Like he really understands the things that are expected of him and what he has been blessed with and what it means to be able to and frankly the other thing that’s really good is that horse racing is a very expensive hobby to get into. So he has no shortage of need for money. So that’s the good thing is that like he in order to not only own but house, shelter, feed, maintain 45 horses and then race them. Like it makes me feel good that he needs the NBA cuz he you can’t win $3,500 at a time and support your your horse racing habit. Um, but I mean like yeah, like listen, it doesn’t in the end it doesn’t really matter how he feels about one over the other as far as his heart is concerned. It’s just like he has a duty. He performs. I think that it’s he looks at basketball. The way that he speaks about it and has spoke about it the his entire career. It’s like it’s not even a question. Do you like this? It’s just like do you like I do this every day. It’s like I like drawing, but it’s like it is my duty to do this. It’s not a question if I like it. Like I just it’s his duty. It’s his job. It’s his responsibility. Yes. Win champions. Exactly. And like and and if you want to see me happy and crying like just it’s when I’m alone when nobody nobody bothers when you’re talking about yogic by yourself when the weekend. Well, and like for me like the question for me like do I like this any less now that I’ve got gotten like more sort of like work involved in it? No. Like I just now I I don’t know. I like it differently but I like it. I but I now I think about it just more critically and like I just think about it in ways that be where I have more of a holistic view but I don’t I mean I just love it. It’s just fun. Yeah. Um, so I think that’s honestly what this is and I think it’s a good thing for Yokic. Like you know, one thing I’ll say about Yokic, he does seem to have good context for a lot of these types like an innate sense of life is supposed to be enjoyed and these passions and and and a lot of life is not supposed to mean anything cuz people always ask him questions about meaning and I think he has a good a good just innate sense of like does was I supposed to this supposed to mean something? I just was doing it because it’s a job or because of this or that. And I think that’s how these things are. when he gets something that to him feels so significant. He probably had a great night out at the pub. Probably didn’t stay at the pub the way we did. There’s another video of the yolk in the stable just handing out tall boys to everybody. Beers. Yeah, that’s the best life right now. I mean, straight out of the package. That’s the amount of money I want in life is to be able to just give the club I’m not at the club. I’m at the bar. Give the bar tall boys. Yeah. Yeah. Just hand them out right out of the crate. I mean truly though, like my main takeaways from this is I just for as much joy and happiness as Jokic himself spreads across the world through his his job, his duty. I love to see him this happy and like him feeling this amount of reward and just like this like amount of playfulness and just like he’s able to really be himself. I mean that that to me is meaningful. Like I like that for him. Um, but of course if there’s one person who really has their finger on the pulse of the Somborian horse circuit, it’s our own Harrison win. So, do you have some details? Cuz I think the people saw the surface story. You have a real story here. Can we dive deep, please? Let’s take a deep dive. So, this race that he won, it’s the biggest race of the summer. Sure. And if you saw in that video, Yok is a little dressed up there. He’s got pants. He’s got a button down on and I think that’s pretty dressed up for him in terms of how he usually watches races. Yeah. Like if you remember that race with Aaron Gordon a couple summers ago wearing a tank top, shorts, flip-flops. Like he was dressed up for this because it’s the biggest race of the summer and he’s won this before like this race. He won it a couple years ago with Brena Lamar who was actually in this race as well. Really? Yeah. So interesting. So first time he wins the race maybe not as emotional but second second time maybe this anyone can win anyone can win one maybe and I will say maybe another reason for the emotion I think this horse was a massive underdog at least from what I can tell under horse um this horse the name of it that one oh please demon del translates to demon of the east holy smokes eastern demon and can we make that yok’s I mean, he kind of yoke us feel like he’s demon of the central. And from what I could tell, this horse, it was only its fourth start ever, and its best finish was third beforehand. What? Yeah. Just real rags to rich’s story. A definite underdog, I believe. And how this this race works is there are two heats actually. So, it ran twice. There’s a first heat, a second heat, and then how they get the winner and the order is they add up the two times, and whoever had the lowest time is the winner. Holy smokes. So, there were two heats that happened. The the one you saw there was the second heat. Wow. In the first heat, his horse, uh, Demon of the East actually tied another horse. Okay. It was a photo finish. They had the exact same time. So you knew just if you just win, we’ll go get first heat. He tied Igor Davyy. That was uh the other horse that was kind of his top competition here. So those horses tied ex they had the same time in the first heat. They ran the second heat which they always do and he won by almost a full second. Holy smokes. And so it was obvious like when that happened that he had won the whole thing. And yeah, like biggest race of the summer. Dude, I dare seems like kind of an upset. I dare you to listen to one other sports program podcast, big budget ESPN, and get this level of detail. And and I’ll say another really interesting fact. Um he talked about in in that video, maybe we dove too deep. Maybe, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Uh there’s a longer video out there where he credits uh Vladimir Privich for getting him into horse racing. That’s the trainer of the horse. And it’s also been the jockey on a lot of uh horses that Joic has won races with over the last couple years. I did notice the jockey got a lot more love from Jokic than the horse itself. The horse got one pack. But that’s the thing on the horse for this race was a different jockey than the usual guy. Oh, was not on this horse. It was an Italian jockey, Carmine Kisuglio who an Italian jockey who who Yoke is very fond of. What do you think? What do you think he said in that? We got to get Vote to go to the track as a jock. We got to get him all up just like this a bit. What do you think Tim Tetric could do if he got his hands on? He could probably do a lot. Do we know for sure that this race took place at that very same hippo? No, it was at a different track. Really? It looks so similar. So, this this horse race was in Sabatica, Ger uh Serbia, which is a little south of Sombor, I believe. Okay. Well, man, that is an incredible detail there when so different jockey than normal. And I think Privich, the usual jockey, is now kind of the quote unquote trainer, but um Wow. Yeah, this might have been real underdog story. This might have been the last little uh you know thrill for yo because Serbia they start up here coming up maybe as early as this week and so this might have been the last little Yeah. It’s like hey man eight months of basketball ahead of you buck up buttercup by the way it’d be so weird to be another Samboreian horse team don’t you think it’s like what am I what am I even Nobody’s ever rooting for you. You win but it’s for the love of the game. It is. Yeah. I’m the guy that spoils Jokic’s horse whenever I do it. Just really quick though. Really quick though. Yes. Any report on the whereabouts of Amy Delwmo? She hasn’t raced in in over a year. So I think she’s I mean I got to say this. I love Jokic. I love everything about him. I don’t love how he moves on so quickly from dreamatch this race. I mean this is three-year-olds racing. They only have a certain you know time period. All right. Okay. He’s the top horse race for 50 years. Yokic likes him young. I mean, three-year-old is the, you know, the best race to race horses. Fine. Fine. All right, we’re going into bad territory here. Let’s take a break. On the other side, LeBron James and Mishko Raznado. Yes, you guys know him. Jokic’s agent, his Serbian agent. They were on a boat. And there’s an interesting reason I believe they were on a boat together that pertains to the Denver Nuggets in a roundabout way. But we should we just rebrand the show as uh Serbian Corner. Serbian Corner. We take everything from Serbian Corner this weekend. We just love to beat it. Uh shout out to Red Hawk Roofing, Denver’s best roofers. Go with these guys. 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Get get beat by me in real life. All right, we’re back here. Segment two, DMDR Nuggets podcast. Throw us a like. Make sure you’re subscribed. You never miss it. Nuggets content even in the month of August. Oh, man. I mean, some of our greatest content has come in. Is it fair to say that we’ve Do we deliver Nuggets content just now? You guys know I I Nuggets adjacent more horse racing content. Well, talk about going far field. I was hoping this year didn’t work out. We were going to do a road a Colorado road trip cuz this is Colorado week. I don’t know if you guys know that. Or Friday is Colorado Day, official Colorado day. We were going to do a road trip. Didn’t work out. Maybe next year we’ll we’ll come to a town near you if you’re from the mountain towns. You guys over the weekend have some news and notes, some quick hitters here. First one, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, his business partner, longtime business partner. Thanks for the James on that. LeBron, which LeBron was it? LeBron Smith. And Mishko Raznado, the owner of Mega Basket as well as the agent uh of Nicolic and many other people. He’s the Jeff Schwarz really of Europe, you know, he’s like the big dog out there. They’re on a boat and Mishko captioned this on his Instagram with something like making plans for the fall of 2026 or like summer of 2025. Great for planning. It’s on that photo if Kale can scroll down at all. Yeah, there there it is. Uh the summer of 2025 is the perfect time to make big plans for the fall of 2026. Exclamation point. Then of course LeBron and Maverick Carter. Just so you know, nobody posts like this accidentally. Oh, this was not by mistake. LeBron LeBron doesn’t like open up Instagram’s like, “Oh, he tagged me in that.” Dang it. Wait, he he wasn’t supposed to take a photo of us. This was a provocative a deliberately provocative post by one Mishko. And then you should have just put eyes eye emojis. Eyes would have been good. Yeah. And I think the caption’s obviously perfect because it creates this ticking time bomb, right? 2026, what’s coming around the corner? Well, one, LeBron’s a free agent. I know. I know a lot of people go to, “Oh, is he brokering a deal for the Nuggets?” First of all, Mishko doesn’t broker deals for the Nuggets. No. And also LeBron doesn’t need to go to on a boat with Mishko to make that such plan. So I was actually looking. Do you think they were in Grand Lake? I was trying to look in the background. See maybe Lake Dylan. I don’t think it was Lake Horse to Tooth Reservoir. Horsetooth. Yeah, they were point even smaller. We’re just going to the worst. Uh, no, I don’t think it had anything to do with Nuggets. But here’s one thing, and Mark Stein actually reported on this and talked about it. Why are these two together? Why are they posting this? It’s not an accident. LeBron James is his contract is up and we wonder how long is he going to play? Is he going to retire? What’s he going to do? Adam Silver just this last month when taking questions about the future of the NBA and everybody’s on expansion and he kind of threw cold water on expansion. He said, “I’m not so sure expansion is going to happen, but the Euro League that features Real Madrid and all Barcelona and all these big teams. The NBA might be looking at that corner and thinking, can we take some of this real estate?” Well, you know, FIA and the NBA doesn’t always play friendly together. we have some of this and now we’ve seen with all these other leagues live golf you know some of these people trying all these new investors with uh endless pockets they just deep pockets they could spend as much as they want they are wanting to own teams I suspect LeBron who seems to always want to stick it to the NBA and also is trying to like ratchet it up I would not be surprised if LeBron and Mishko were discussing in Maverick Carter discussing some alternate to the NBA allah like what what did the WNBA just do this summer the unrivaled tournament you know the turned out very rivaled I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying something like that and or trying to I know the NBA is interested in maybe taking some of your league to completely destroying your league and saying we’re going to take some of the teams we’re going to create some other teams just out of nothing and we’re going to create our own league and would it be so crazy if rather than a retirement tour LeBron spends his final playing years helping launch this by being LeBron James Europe tour for the London Larks. Leondon LeBron le Oh man in uh as long as he as long as where were the Olympics just last year they were oh in France as long as they purchase probably no discussions happen around that while they were over there I’m sure but as long as they purchase and contract uh penathanikos I’m fine with that. Yeah, I I think you’re on the right track because look, if you want to get something done in Europe when it comes to basketball, there’s one guy to go through. It’s Misco. Yeah, he owns that corner. He He owns that corner. That’s his terrain. He knows everybody in Europe. He’s the biggest power broker there. And he’s not afraid to piss everyone off as the bully. Like, he’s he’s fine being that guy. If he has an idea or or the team he’s on has an idea of something they want to push through, it will probably get done. like he’s just the guy to get things done. So, I think that’s definitely in on the right track there. I could see LeBron doing that because I mean, if you’re talking about like leaving a legacy, yeah, I can leave a legacy as arguably the greatest player in NBA history and then I can be the guy who’s responsible for launching this new thing that, you know, could grow into an absolute huge arm of the NBA. I I think it’s got to be something centered around Europe, the NBA, what can we create over there that is going to like make waves. If they were smart, and I think they’re probably smart, they should the NBA in general should not be just focusing on Europe. They should be focusing on a world league like the It’s kind of hard for travel though. It is hard for but not like um you know, not like a weekend crown the world champions finally. Argentina has that Peru Spain backto-back. It’s so killer. It’s just always USA versus USA versus China coming up. Gonna be a tough game. But I to me it it’d be smart if they if they created something to rival FIA more so than uh well and I think this is part of it and part of this is I have heard that Euro League does not do a good job of making money like they have for all of the things that it have. It’s like tradition matters. Then you have, you know, teams that are participating that are in very different economic brackets because the countries are and how much money can you make there? And so I think that the NBA looks around and says you have some of these teams that participate in the Euro League. Maybe not all of them. Maybe we don’t want to tow along some of the lesser, less profitable teams. We do want to take your Real Madrids, you know, we want to take those teams out, but we need more teams in London. This is like so incendiary for all of our European listeners. We’re just like, well, we just take them and crash them. The I’m not advocating for this but telling you this is this is pure conjecture also. So like whenever people like we always get this from you know when Europe is showing us like the flares and they’re like this is what real atmosphere is and it’s like true you know and then when we went out there people were like they don’t sell food here you’re not here to eat like well guess what the one thing the US is good at is making money and sometimes that costs the soul of a thing quite a bit right it is but at the same time it is a thing so I think that the NBA looks at this and it’s like could we have two or three teams in London and Germany and Fran and Paris and like when we get more teams in the big mark big markets and make big market. Well, I’m serious. Like, we can’t go. No, it’s just funny. I honestly think that’s part of the plan and I would not be surprised if LeBron actively involved and maybe even LeBron just loves putting pressure on people. What more pressure is there than, hey, I might just leave the NBA and go over here and maybe I take Chris Paul with me and some of these other guys with me. Boy, that would that suck. Me, Melo, CP3. Yeah, just like the all scumbags squad and Lance Stevenson are going to play in Paris. ESPN would cover it. I mean, that’s all I’m saying. So, anyway, I think that’s what’s going on. Uh, Russell Westbrook rumored to maybe being going to the Sacramento Kings. You guys see this one? They have to get rid of Malik Monk or Devin Carter to accommodate, but it’s like apparently an open rumor. How would we feel about Westbrook staying in the conference? Whatever. I mean, come on. What are we talking about in in the year of our Lord 2025 2026? We just saw what King Steam is shaping up to be an alltimer, though. I will say they really I mean D Rozan dude there’s some real odds there’s some real odds and ends teams uh formulating in in California like the Clippers and the Kings are just like like what what is what are these teams dude you know what year this is like this is insane like you just look on paper if you like found your fantasy football or fantasy basketball lineup from 5 years ago it’ be like this guy destroyed James Harden Kawhi Leonard Chris Paul, this is an unstoppable force. The same thing with the Kings. Like, all right, what what did this doesn’t make any sense. What are you guys doing? I mean, like, listen, I’m on record saying like I actually would like Russell Westbrook back with the Denver Nuggets. I liked what he did for uh for us. Um he obviously broke down literally as his hand broke. We found out later on, but um I mean, you can’t look at him as like an actual difference maker. So, we don’t care. We don’t care. The Kings the Kings. All right. Do you care about the Kings? Will you It would add a little, you know, subplot to any match up with that. Did you claim three times? Yeah, you have that. Would you root for him, Dane? No, you would. You would not root against him, but you wouldn’t root for him. I said this very clearly and I keep saying Russell Wilson when I talk about Russell Westbrook and it’s just two guys that I hated and I was forced to love and now I’m allowed to hate again. He’s off the team. I hate him. You suck. You suck, Russ. All the Russ stand fans can come at me. I mean, it’s tough to be here a year and like really have lasting power with it’s like come on the fan base. I mean, there are some guys like that, but Chris Brown would argue differently. Well, they won a championship. That that’s the difference. And they won a championship and he’s back. Yeah. All right. We have one more topic I want to get to here, and it’s the main topic, but we only save two minutes for it. And that is, of course, Luca Donuchen’s Health magazine. Yeah. Do you have this, Gail? Do you have the picture? Uh, bring this one up here. Look at how skinny he is. Some people are saying it’s photoshopped because of course Photoshop. Didn’t I say this on body? I said this on Friday. We were We were T minus. That looks so weird. We were We were in This wasn’t out yet then, was it? No. That’s the point is that I said on Friday we’re about to get Skinny Luca photos and then we’re going to get like, “Oh, Nico created a demon.” But did you think he’d graced the cover of Men’s Health? Men’s Health. Yeah, that’s a whole other level. Do this is a lot different from just a photo of, you know, skinny Jokic just popping up out of nowhere at a charity basketball game. Are they considering vaping to be healthy? Is that what this is? Like this is the most predictable thing. Thinking he’s hookah. Well, he’s hookah donuch. We all know that. But like if you put a strawberry up top, like does it become then it become part of men’s health? Listen, every year is the same year. Time is a flat circle. We’ve seen this over and over and over. Yeah, I know he’s skinny right now. I disagree. Oh, okay. He gets skinny for team Slovenia every single time. That is so true. That is his motivator. Every single time he gets skinny for team Slovenia and everyone’s like, “Oh, this is we’re about to get some Zion photos. The same thing. It’ll be like boys life or whatever.” In the in the article, the one thing I will say is in the article he does talk. He does allude to the fact that shaming, fat shaming works. It became Here’s the thing with Luca. It was always a story that he could sort of flip his middle finger towards, right? until one day a team actually traded him and it became something where he had couldn’t run from and this is just part of it is I do think with Luca I agree with you Eric I actually think he will be in great shape this year because he has to he could always run from it from well he just doesn’t look it but look at the numbers and look at this this is the first year he had to be forced to be confronted with the fact that he is lazy and I think that he’s going to come back and make shape but it also makes me think about Jamal this is the first year Jamal couldn’t run from it everybody including his coaches and teammates brought it up and it just makes me wonder if he too behind the scenes not on Men’s Health magazine, but if it’s like one of those Canadian I know. Yeah, Men’s Health. E yeah, we haven’t seen a picture or photo shoot like this, but I’m telling you, there is something too. You can get away from it when you can just flip a middle finger to it. Sometimes you no longer can do that. Oh, and and I think he definitely wants to put it to Dallas also. I think there I think that is absolutely legit. I think he is still pissed off about the trade. This is the most predictable storyline we’ve ever seen in the history of sports is like, of course, he’s going to get in shape after being discarded by Nico Harrison and then he’s going to But I don’t buy I’ve just seen that. I can’t do this anymore, guys. What don’t you buy about it? I know there is something about uh the your true nature that always rises back to the surface. Um he’s going to get in shape. He’s going to start the season in shape and then he’s slowly going to turn back into Luca Danton. So, you don’t think there’s any chance this is a Jokic like glow up from, you know, 2020 when Yoke suddenly was in shape in, you know, going into the bubble. I suppose it’s possible. I know. And since then has kind of revolutionized or just totally changed his workout regimen and just how focused in he is on that cuz I think it could be a similar thing with Luca. Could be. It could be. You’re not biting. Stay stand on it. Don’t run from this. I like it. It’s a great I’m just saying like I’ve seen this a lot before. Sure. Yeah. And and I think this could have been like the similar wakeup call that Yoko had. It could be. But Jokic was never caught. Well, whatever. Hey, fat shaming. Maybe it worked. We’ll find out here later on. All right, let’s take a break on the other side. This nugget season will be the season of blank. Fat shaming. Hey, maybe. Yeah. Amy Deluo. If you guys need tickets to concert shows, sporting events, Game Time is your go-to app. Uh we just all went to a Rockies game a couple weeks ago up on the rooftop hanging out, drinking, eating, having a good time, not watching a lot of baseball, but hanging out with each other. And where do we get the tickets? 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I really believe it, man. I don’t think there’s that many like curve balls on the, you know, on the docket. I think that’s part of it. Last year, I saw a million curve balls coming. This year, I think it’s going to be fast down fast balls down the plate every single time. That’s pounded out of the I think it’s a very smart team. I think it’s going to be a very connected team. That’s why I think this is going to be the year of fun among other things. I got other ones. Um, what do you think about that fun, Eric? I I can see it. I can see it. Listen, it’s also new. the end of the la end of the year last year. We actually did learn to love the game again. We did we fell back in love with the game during because we had obviously we hit the top level of I don’t know like uh problems coming into into our world and then Michael Malone getting fired, Calvin Booth getting fired, like what is this? And then the rest of the year into the playoffs was like so exhilarating and I am with you. I mean, I think that that’s kind of the the vibe of this Nugget squad at this point in time is it’s like there’s so much optimism. Like, it just it makes so much sense. This is the most optimistic I think anybody has been about the Nuggets in a really long time since the championship, obviously. And um yeah, man. Like, I I can see it playing out that way. I mean, I don’t know if I’m just I I don’t know if I got uh yellow and blue colored glasses on, but it just really feels right. You have no glasses on right now, so I don’t I don’t think right here. Um, I think it could be because man Oh, those are white colored clear colored glasses. That’s right. Hell yeah. Um, I mean, even thinking back to the championship season, that regular season was fun. Yeah. It It’s not like it was 10 out of 10 fun, though. It was the playoffs that really brought They had some great moments during that season, a couple solid win streaks, but I remember the feeling that season was like it was almost uh nervousness and like so much pressure, you know, around that regular season because we were all just waiting for the playoffs. We’re all just thinking, okay, this is the year we have to get that done. Um, this is the year when like Nicole Joic can actually prove himself in that environment. there was so much pressure around that season and then these last two regular seasons definitely not like even close to whatever level of fun that year was. So this year I I definitely feel like we can return to to the vibes we had, you know, at at some points during that championship regular season. And to your point, it doesn’t feel like there’s going to be that many surprises. Like everything seems somewhat set in stone and everybody’s kind of feeling that heading into the year. I think it’s going to for that same reason, it’ll be the year of consistency. The Nuggets have been such a two-faced team. Could they lose to the Wizards? Yes. Not just once, but twice. Could they blow giant leads? Could they do all these things? Yes. I think this is the first year where we kind of feel like the Nuggets are the Nuggets almost every night. I mean, every team has ups and downs, but I think this will be a year of consistency, too, because I look at their roster and I think they have more consistent players and will have a more consistent system. That’s part of why the fun will be here is every night you tune in, you’re going to be like, “Yeah, we’re going to get Nuggets basketball tonight.” Totally, man. Totally. All right. What do you guys got? Um, I think it’s going to be the year of Jokic. Yeah. The year of Jokic, dude. I This is going to be the It’s going to be the year of Jamal Murray. It’s going to be the year of Jamal. Are you really going here? Yeah. Yeah. All right. It’s the year of Jamal. It’s the year of Jamal. Okay. Jamal Murray finally realizes his potential. I’m not buying it. So predictable. I knew it. every year. I saw him on the cover of of Canadian Boys Weekly and uh No, I mean I really do. I really think that um as you said as you’ve said um there is societal and team level pressure that is now mounting against Jamal Murray. I believe that he as we’ve said that there’s always been something kind of in the way whether he created that thing in the way or not, but there’s been some reason that you can point to. You’re like, well, he was blah blah blah blah blah. I just think he’s going to come out of the gate um and play well. I just I think it’s going to be the year to come. That’s what it’s going to be. I think that because I’ve been thinking about what would be the most fun. Maybe we’ll do that this year. Like different ways this year could be fun. Murray having a true all-star caliber year where he’s just great. He’s just his best version of himself all year. To me, might be number one. So, that would be the number one thing. How fun would that be? If it was just like, yes, Joic has a legitimate true every night running mate. All this other stuff has such a wide margin. So, to for me, I would love it. I’m not buying it, though. I’m I’m only buying the Clippers. That’s the That’s the team that I think it’s the year. The Clippers. I’m going to buy I’m buying Skinny Luca and the Clippers. Skinny Luka and the Clippers. I have not I’ve heard Z’s gonna be great this year. He’s really bought in. I think Ben Simmons is really uh What about Jamal real quick? What do you think? Harrison got burned on this exact take pretty badly last year. So, I don’t expect him to hop on with me. Yeah. Wait, wasn’t it two two years ago Jamal? I thought last year was season after the champion two years ago. Okay. Whatever. We all have taken a year predicting this. It’s Eric’s turn. It’s my turn, baby. One of us is going to be right or not. That’s what you would think. Um, no, I do think that’s probably the single best outcome for everybody involved if it is the urge bomb. Yes. I mean, him being an all-star would be just awesome. Um, him being that true second star every night would be just a him captaining the bench unit and really being that reliable guy there and the Nuggets like constructing an offense around him with that group. That would be in so awesome, too. So, it’d be a great outcome. What about the year? What’s your prediction? Um, Jokic because So, you’re going to say it’s the year of Joic. Yes, but not in a he’s definitely going to win MVP way or he’s definitely have the best statistical season ever. I’m really just buying this angle of we’re going to see a different side of him this year and pivoting off of what we talked about maybe last week or the week before, just the leadership angle. I I just think this year we’re going to see him become even more of a leader. And I think we saw a lot of that late last season and into the playoffs, just the coach on the floor in the huddles, just being the the and growing into the leader that he has to be for this specific team. I think he’s just at that point in his career. I think, you know, he can definitely set the table for that a lot this summer playing for Serbia and just his leadership role on that team. And I think it’s gonna translate into him being that voice and that presence for the Nuggets this season. And so I feel like we’re going to see a different side of yoke um than we have. And look, he might not average, it’s not about him averaging 30, 15 and 10 or, you know, breaking records or like doing that kind of thing. I just think off the court with his voice and the the leadership angle is going to be one we we really see a new side of this year from him. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I think I’m with you, man. Like it is funny that we do this every year. Like what year is it the year of Jokic? Okay. All right. We did it. But I Let’s just go through this. I don’t think talent-wise Joic will be worse this year than he was last year, which was his greatest year. Numbers maybe because fewer minutes, less is expected of him. But talent-wise and impact, and that’s really what we’re talking about. You watch Yokic play, he’s dominant. I think he’s going to be dominant this year. Why wasn’t he in the MVP? Why didn’t he win the MVP this year? Because of wins. I think that this year the Nuggets are going to win a lot of games. 56, 57, 58, somewhere in that range. I would not be surprised if Oklahoma City won slightly fewer. 62, 63. So, you look at that at that point that’s a negligible amount. You’re talking about, okay, one of the best records in the NBA and he’s the best player. I would not be surprised if he won the MV MVP again this year. I think there’s a I I it might be smart to bet on honestly like you might get really good odds, but the bigger part is will it feel different in a meaningful way? And I think yes, too. I think he is maturing and I think this absolutely could be a year of Jokic. Interesting. I also here’s another one for you. I think it could be the year of Cam Johnson. And I keep going back and forth to this. Is it would it be crazy if I told you I looked into the future? I know who leads the Nuggets. It’s Nicola Joic. But you know who the second leading scoreer is? Cam Johnson. Did you hear my take on Friday? Definitely not. I predicted Cam Johnson will outpace Michael Porter Jr.’s production on the Nuggets in every facet. I mean, that would be a great one, but what if he also outpaced Jamal Murray? And the reason I’m saying this is he has a little bit of dynamic off the dribble game. I think Yolk’s going to have a new pick and roll partner. You know, AOP, the guy does social media for me on the AllNBA show, very good statistitian. and he had this graphic about pick and roll combos and who ran the most and all this stuff. And I was looking there going, “What if Cam Johnson’s on that list this year? I could see it. Why not run pick and roll with him? He can handle. He can run pick and roll. I wouldn’t be surprised if he We look up and it’s like him and Jamal averaging basically the same amount of points.” Like around 20 a game. Around 20 a game. That’s going to be great. Yeah. I mean it really anything’s on the table. I’m so eager to see how this team fits together like cuz you can imagine a lot of like very harmonious play styles coming together and and actually just uh you know things really fitting like a glove. You you have to wait to see how it actually plays out. But I mean truly like in this time of the year when the Nuggets are just purely an imaginary thing and like talk about you’re like man could that happen? That could totally happen. Why couldn’t it? It’s going to be so predicated on just what direction the offense goes, though. I agree because we we’ve all talked about this and I think we all believe that the Nuggets would be better off if they gradually shifted just a little bit more away from the twoman game and went and just opened up the offense a little more to other people. If they do that, yeah, that could definitely happen. I could just see it, man. And then on top of that, who staggers? If it is Jamalis, can play more minutes with Joic and then like when Murray’s not on the court, that’s your pick and roll partner. I could just play with a Joic that is it. Is there any others? The year of It’s the year of having a backup center. The year of the bench. The year of the bench of the nonish minutes. The that rebranded to just bench minutes. The bench minutes. We don’t have to refer to them as nonic minutes. Do you know what a big deal it would be if the Nuggets had a positive impact bench this year? Yes. Then we’re talking 60 wins for real. If if this is the year of the nonic minutes, that would be incredible. Yeah. I’m saying, man, like I said as much on Friday, too. Like I think that the the bench is going to be a positive for the Denver Nuggets. They’re going to be as far as plus minus is concerned, the bench is going to be a positive for your my Denver Nuggets. Like you just having the only thing that you know still a little bit in question is where the scoring comes from. You don’t you don’t know for sure. Like Tim Hardaway Jr., Julian Strawther, Pwatt, Jamal Murray, Bruce. It’s like there are potentially some prolific scorers in there. Tim Hardaway and and maybe Julian Strawther. Uh Big Val, Big Val, you don’t you don’t necessarily think of him as a a a dynamic scorer, but I do. the pieces at least fit together in a way that you can see uh you can think like this could they could produce points in a way that is like a a team creates points rather last year the Thunder were plus 15 with Shay off the floor for the regular season oh no sorry that was in the playoffs regular season they were plus 400 yeah probably plus more than that yeah I I think I look I love that take maybe this is the year of the nonic minutes which would be so wild 37 in the regular. I’m telling you, the the year of never using that phrase again. How many times this year did you feel like the team saved Jokic? Like Joic didn’t have it tonight, but the team was two or three. It was like two or three times. West was a big part of some of those. Not Yolks out a game, they win. You didn’t expect like there just was only a handful. But it would be great if this year there were multiple occasions where you’re just like kind of felt consistently like, hey, they can do that for us. Why not? Uh let us know in the comments by the way what this is the year of. Maybe it’s the year of Christian Brown, maybe Pton Watson, Amy. Dumo, Amy Delwmo. Comments are saying the year of Adelman is the one we haven’t brought up. I mean, that it’s entirely possible that we’re talking about as like this perfect coach for the situation they’re in. That’d be great. The end of of Ben Ben Wallace. They make some mid-season trade that it’s even better than we think. Oh, man. I think we’re in the middle of the year of Ben Wallace right now. Like the off seasonason is the year of Ben Wallace. Uh, all right, Kale, I’m feeling a little too nice. We’ve been a little too positive. Let’s go to the haters ball. All right. I was thinking about this as Eric and I were talking now prepping for this show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know if I hate the Phoenix Suns with the same passion I’ve hated them for for the last four or five years. Feel bad for them. That’s it’s at a certain point you just become a bully, you know? It’s you’re like this guy can’t defend himself. There’s some things like you hate somebody so bad they get knocked out. Two, three sucker punches, whatever. Like, you know, you just that’s what you want. And there’s some it’s like, hey, he’s down. Hey, everybody. No, don’t. Hey, he’s defenseless. Like, he learned his lesson. Learned his lesson. All right, we don’t have to like go hug the guy, but let him get up on his own and and go walk it off. That’s how I feel about the Suns. They’re not on my radar. And I like Espo. I like Espo, too. Um, you know, listen, I like Espo, too. Matt is Matt is a certified bozo. Like, he’s really I hate I have a prediction that Mattbia won’t own the Suns in 5 years. Wow. I think he’s going to get out of this game before we think. Wow. He’ll just donate it to uh the University of uh No, he’s he’s running he’s running a male procarov 2.0 scheme. Oh, you might This might be a great take. I like it. That he’ll be able to actually sell uh get the footprint center under a bad subprime mortgage through his company. He’s going to sell it to somebody. But the Suns are no longer in my haters ball court. They’ve been banished. I don’t feel anything for them. But does that mean they’ve elevated or or sunk? They’re they’ve sunk their way. They’re just not on the radar. The Suns. Yeah, they’re sub hate. The Suns are like, “Oh, Nuggets, you might match up with the Suns.” I don’t care. I don’t They’re nobody. We don’t care. Yeah, we don’t care. I think the Lakers, here’s my real take. I almost put the Lakers at not number one, but this is the off season. This I I know myself well enough to know this is so dumb. I will hate them eventually, but at this very moment, they seem a little rerless. They are totally rer. The Timberwolves are like right there. Like, I still hate the Timberwolves. They beat us in summer league. Like, I still feel like they’re the thorn of my league game. But I can’t put them above the Lakers cuz I would hate myself come October when we see the Lakers. I’m like, who do I who do I hate right now in the NBA? The Lakers have such a Well, here’s the thing. I think the Thunder have climbed to top three status for me. I don’t like the Thunder. I think they’re boring. Yeah. I mean, we all have a hate a hate hate relationship with Dragon. He sucks. Chad Homegrid’s kind of annoying. Like really annoying. Shay his fake aura. I don’t like the Thunder, but I don’t think I hate him more than the Wolves. No, I I do think even though they won, they’re still fake. They’re still li like they’re still like not legitimate. I don’t know how to explain it. They are the first team to win a title and they’re not 68 wins. Yeah. Yeah. I still think they’re a bunch of like they’re a bunch of like tryh hard wannabes. I I don’t know how to explain it. I don’t know how to square it, but that’s just the way I feel. Um yeah, I really don’t like Jaylen Williams. I don’t like um um I do not like the Thunder as a as a whole. I I don’t like how proud of themselves they are. Oh god, bothers me. I I I respect the Thunder a little more. You So you don’t hate the Thunder? I I dislike them a lot. Um, I I respect them I think more though. I mean, sure, I I do think they’re a good team. This is not like I’m not trying to go full Dline here, but I just hate them. I just I’m like, they’re bad for the score. They’re so boring. Whatever. [ __ ] it. Sorry. All right. Who’s next on this list, though? It is. It’s got to be the the T- Wolves. It’s got to be the Timberwolves, right? It has to be the Timberwolves are above. Oh, okay. Oh, rival. We just went right by them. So, who’s one and two? Timberwolves, Lakers. Lakers. Timberwolves. Thunder to me. make round out your top three. Okay. Um, next up is could be a player. Really? Yeah. Why? James Harden, Kawhi Leonard. Come on. I know. Kyoo, dude. The ultimate like Oh, Bradley Beal somehow joined them. Yeah, they’re very hateable. They’re very hateable. So hateable. But I feel like I don’t want to give them my attention yet. They’re like It’s just played them in the playoffs. Yeah, we beat them. They are. It’s good that they’re all in the Clippers. Yeah, cuz they’re all they’ve all been an anchor on the NBA. Just they’re just dragging the NBA down. Guard of the NBA. You know they hate Jokic. Oh, you know they hate Jokic. They We should refer to them as the old guard. Just the NBA old guard. Who do we got tonight? The old guard. How many of them are out going to be glazing them all year? No, not all year. Just to start. No, all they’re doing it right now, man. Well, that’s cuz this year hasn’t started. At a certain point, they’re going to be like, “Who’s out?” They love the Clippers. Oh my god. I I they weren’t on my list, but I they would have been close. What about the Rockets? Do we hate the Rockets yet? Or that one. We’re going Well, they got So, they got rid of Dylan Brooks. Kevin Durant’s kind of hatable, man. Kind of hateable. Kevin Durant is kind of love, too, but I kind of hate him. Kevin Durant is a straightup villain, but they he wants to be they have other kind of lovable guys that we’ll learn to hate. Well, uh Shangon, he’s lovable. Fred Van Van Vleet. I don’t hate him at all. I I like him. Uh Shangun just trying to be Jokic. Yeah, but he’s like he’s just like a doofy. You can’t hate him. He’s like your little bro. Like ah he’s I think his teammates hate it. I think he’s actually an annoying personality. Well, whatever. Really? I want to hang out with the guy, but I’m just saying like Amen. Thompson I really like. Yeah, we we all like not hooper enough for the Rockets. Jabari Smith. I mean like I don’t has dead eyes. What do they call it when you have you know the eyes don’t lie. Sociopath. Yeah, that’s what it is. He if you notice his eyes never move. when he was like all when he went to hide when he went to the wife of somebody he worked with was like let’s have an outselves canled here why is it cancelled just reporting the news but okay I can’t mention the thing the guy did you can mention it in passing in that was passing anyway uh so I don’t they got rid of my least favorite player in the NBA Jaylen Green who went to the Suns which might bump the back up to hate territory for me I’m going to have to find out how it goes but I just think that we’re going to be in a you Like we kind of started to hate Memphis a little bit, but then they completely disqualified themselves from NBA contention. Yeah, it’s true. Um, so to me it’s we’re in an era where we can use ball as the basis of hate. It used to be we just had to be be like you Lakers think you’re so tough. You you guys think in New York you’re so now the Rockets actually. Now it’s like now it’s just like who’s challenging us for the crown. Straight ball hate. I think I do hate Wimby. I think I joined. came to the dark side with I think I think it was just too much this summer, man. It was just too much. I couldn’t take it. I couldn’t take it. People are jumping all over the Spurs like, “Oh, they’re going to be a 40 something win team. 45 wins like four seed.” Yeah, they’re a plus. Why? I know what for in for what reason? Wy’s really good when he plays. They haven’t really He’s really Oh my god. They He’s won 20 games over his entire career. Um, and he’s only been injured for some part of it. And what I mean, but but what is the basis for the everyone? Is it I’ve heard people been like, “Wow, now they got a full season with him and Swiper.” Is that is that the I mean, that’s not Cam. Okay, thanks. Is there anything like what what is the other reason it just internal development? Yeah, internal internal development. Yeah, they got Luke Cornet, too. People are high on that move. Luke, uh, I’m adding a new team to my list here, and I think we’ll all agree. Panathonosikos. They’re on my haters ball list. Did you see they got Thomas Bryant? Yeah. They really Yeah, they’re in in No, went to Olympiaos. Yeah. Oh, he went to Olympos. Yes. We’re Olympos. This is an Olympos podcast. No, they got Thomas Bryant. They got Thomas Bryant. Yes. That’s so funny. They really are trying to be the Nuggets. You’ll never be the Nuggets. Uh, and then I’m adding Adam Silver to the list. I he I just I I’m so sick of the guy. So sick of the guy. He’s been on the list. Do you think that they’ll ever be in any sports league a commissioner that is universally loved? I can’t think of a single dude. Adam Silver was for a while there. Like when he first came in, he uncle because all the Donald the the Sterling Sterling. He’s like, “We’re not going to take it. You hear that? We don’t like force you to sell for $2 billion. We’re like, we’re not going to take overt racism.” Like, wow, what a hero. stands up for what’s right, man. It’s my commissioner. That’s my dog. That’s my dog. The lowest bar, right? Waving the flag. Unbelievable. I Can you imagine if LeBron sets up a life rival league right under his nose, right? He would be the ultimate like, “We got to kick this guy out. We got to get him out of here. He’s ruining everything.” If they create a rival league. Well, I I can’t see it being a rival league. It would have to be like a a league that’s works in concert with I think I think either or honestly are on the table right now. I think there are I think either or we’ll have to wait and see. I threw the Knicks on here. I don’t I don’t know why, but I just don’t like the I don’t know. I can’t put I can’t put my big market. Yeah, probably. It’s just I do hate the big markets. What do I What do I hate? I I I Do you hate anybody in the East? Here’s the thing about me. I’ve told you this many times. I have a new hate for Jon. My view of sports is that it is a place that I place all of my hate in life. So I don’t really walk around with a heart full of hate. I have to like really think about it and it’s not until the the season starts. I mean you you have a lot of hate. I feel like Yeah. If you didn’t you just say Jaylen Green you is your most hated MP. Yeah. But I’m saying like I need I have to like really get into like I think I got to be into the season for these feelings to come to me. I don’t just have them walking around. Right. But I think uh what am I gonna hate, dude? Sacramento. H what’s the point? Richard Jefferson Dallas. I think I’ll probably hate the new incarnation of uh the NBA after postgame show. Yeah. Yeah. ESPN the ESPN version of of They’re going to ruin too, right? Yeah. I could see all I’m kind of over like I I I know that I hate the ESPN product of every show they’ve created over the last 5 years. I was actually watched an episode of that uh Bill Simmon and Celtics. Oh, that’s great. Spill of that. I think that’s amazing. I hate the Celtics and I love that. A funny fact from that I was just dying about. I’m sorry I have to share this. Did you know that John Havichek’s or no Bob Koozy’s nickname was Mr. basketball. Oh, I love it, dude. Mr. Basketball. That was his nickname. You know, like that’s a good one. That’s like a It’s great. His name was just Mr. Basketball. He’s like the most famous basketball player for like an entire decade. That’s when the sport is new. You get that? You know, like Mr. Basketball. Mr. Lacrosse could probably come up in this era, right? Yeah. Years from now, you can’t be Mr. Imagine if your name was nickname Mr. Football. Be incredible. Johnny Manzel was Johnny football. Johnny. Good stuff. Uh, all right. We have any super chats, Kale? Couple of them. What are the people saying today? Brandon Dunham, Joic’s emotion is not surprising. He’s the ultimate celebrator of others. Interesting. Didn’t care about MVP, but if any Nugget made the All-Star game or All-Star team, he would be elated. I hope I hope he cheers me on one time. I don’t think that. He’s actually watched me play basketball before. True story. It’s probably I threw I threw a hide in the back bath right on point. He gave me one of those. Really? True story. That’s dope. Uh V8 Tiger, our guy Josh Barnett from down under just woke up. Are the Nuggets back yet? Don’t go back to sleep. The Nuggets done been back. Yeah, it’s so really We’re so back. I will say, do you guys know you can cue that outro music, Kale? Team Serbia has friendlies on the 5th and 6th of of next week. I have no idea if Yokic is playing or if we’ll even be able to watch such games. Probably not. Who are they against? Well, I didn’t have that in Sorry, dude. You You’re talking to Harrison. He does. He knows everything about the I got it. They do play in Latvia. Oh, that’s a dumb. No. Oh, you know what? I think Yokic will play cuz I believe these are actually World Cup qualifiers. Serbians, correct me on on on if I’m wrong here. Oh, that’s football. Damn it. Okay. I don’t know who they play. I was looking at it the other day. I know that they play Czech Republic later in the month and they play Slovenia in Belgrade later in the month as well. Those two will be very, very good. Um, but we might get Jokic basketball. Yic highlights next week, brother. I’m telling you, like, I can’t get over what the Rockies have done to me. I have no sports to turn to this time of the year. It’s terrible. It is terrible. But we think appreciate you guys spending your time with us. Everybody hit that like button on the way out. See you tomorrow. [Music] [Applause] We all silly like the mayor.

Nikola Jokic was emotional following a victory at the hippodrome in Sombor, Serbia over the weekend. More emotional than we are used to seeing. And he shared interesting perspective about the difference between work and passion. Plus, LeBron James was spotted with Misko Raznatovic, Jokic’s Serbian agent. What was that meeting about?

The DNVR Nuggets team breaks it all down and discusses other topics surrounding the Denver Nuggets.

Adam Mares, Harrison Wind, and Eric Wedum (D-Line Co.) come to you LIVE from the DNVR Bar to break down everything you need to know in this edition of the DNVR Nuggets Podcast!

Start – 0:00
Jokic’s emotional reaction – 2:30
Wind on the horse racing beat – 10:30
LeBron and Misko plotting? – 19:00
Westbrook to the Kings? – 25:50
Skinny Luka? – 28:00
This Nuggets season will be the season of? – 34:00
The hater’s ball – 47:00
Superchats – 58:00

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