Denver Nuggets

Adam, this is a wild division.

Another summer of Nuggets fans getting frustrated with the front office.

The Thunder are part of kind of the second apron debate that's been ongoing.

Minnesota and Portland made potential franchise-changing moves.

Two teams that got worse are the two teams that I have at the top of this division and the two teams that have finished at the top of this division for the last million years.

OKC and Denver.

Let's start with your Denver Nuggets.

54-28 last year.

Yeah.

But like that, it like works when you're here and you want to watch the Nuggets, but then like a couple of times you like forget.

And then the Nuggets are playing the Clippers.

You're like, Oh, can't watch it.

Cause the Clips are, the Clips are playing them.

We get that.

Then they go title contenders with the Punchers, Chance, the Nuggets, Pissons, Raptors, Rockets, and Celtics after that.

They have paper-thin margin for error, but crazier things have happened.

The Atlanta Hawks, the Indiana Pacers, the Cavs, the Timberwolves, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Lakers.

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We are about a week away from the Denver Nuggets getting back into the full swing of an NBA season.

And I got to tell you, I think the world is entirely a little too down on the Denver Nuggets.

They're going to be a lot better than some people think.

They'll be better than a few people think.

But I think there's a lot of stuff that we got to talk about because if you ask me, this Denver Nuggets team, they have a lot to play for.

There's a lot of special basketball that could be up this season.

And I want to talk to y'all about award predictions because I'm really excited about the start of the season.

We are less than a week away, or I guess a week away right now from the Jazz opening media day.

And less than two weeks away now from the Jazz having their first preseason game at Boulder against the Denver Nuggets.

And

exactly one month from game one of 82 against the Memphis Grizzlies.

And unfortunately, one of those names could end up being Anthony Black.

And You know, I've compared this Orlando Magic team from a financial perspective to the Denver Nuggets in the situation where they have so much money allocated to really good players, just maybe overly paid for the production that's been provided by said players over the last few years, whether that's the fact that, you know, we haven't had Paolo Beccaro put up an MVP season, whether that's the fact that Franz Wagner has been on and off the floor, or Franz Wagner has been inconsistent.

as far as being on the floor due to the injury situation.

Same thing could be said for Jalen Suggs, right? Wendell Carter Jr., $18 million center next season.

This is a team that is very financially inept at the moment.

And because of that, they've dug themselves quite the hole.

And, you know, for the Denver Nuggets, you know, they at least got to win a championship out of it before things got really bad.

But we saw over time that that team slowly but surely deteriorated simply because of the financial decisions that they made They win a championship, and then you see KCP, different situation.

His service and longevity with the Raptors, it's almost who played more games very close I would say right yeah

it's going to be weird seeing him play for Denver this year isn't it seriously it's going to be really strange seeing that but maybe he'll be a good player for them so alright the last one this is a guy we've seen sorry

is DeMar DeRozan fantasy relevant in Denver this year

I don't know if he's ever been a fantasy beast, right? He doesn't always stop it up.

But maybe he could get some minutes there and he could be worth a flyer on in the late round pick.

The Thunder are a team that won the finals two years ago and had to move on from one of their key players in their rotation in Lou Dort because they couldn't afford it.

The Denver Nuggets, a team that won the finals, they had to move on from one of their key parts, which is now one of the next key parts.

Michael Porter Jr., So you don't want to make the trade just because and you want to give up the future that you have because a contract is bad, but he's a good player.

No, you don't want to do that.