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Chris Paul says he's going to retire after the season.

What do we make of his career?

Meanwhile, we got a fantastic game between the Nuggets and the Rockets from the weekend.

We'll get into what we learned from two of the top teams in the West.

Plus, we're going to talk about the beef between Clay and Jha.

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I'm Wes Goldberg. Today we're talking about the game that we had circled for all of last week between the Nuggets and the Rockets. We'll get into that in a second. And we're doing it with the help of lockdown's local experts. I have two of the best with me as always from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast. He's an NBA senior writer for the Action Network.

It's Matt Moore, Matt.

It's Matt.

It's Derek Queen's world and we're all just living in it. From the Lockdown Bulls podcast, Bears and Bulls creator for Bleacher Report, it's Hayes. For a team that needed a center, the Bulls showed passed up on a lot. We passed on Walker Castle. We passed on Derek Queen. I don't know what we're doing. should have traded an unprotected pick for Derek Queen.

We didn't have to.

He was right there on Derek Queen. I don't know what we're doing. Should have traded an unprotected pick for Derek Queen. We didn't have to. He was right there on the board when we were drafting. Let's jump in. Let's start with the news that Chris Paul will retire after this season. He's been in the league for 21 years. It's one of the great point guards in NBA history. There's no question about it. But the one thing that is always held against him, he never won a championship. And that is a big deal when you

start talking about resumes. Matt, assuming that he doesn't get a ring this season, which

based on where the clippers are, pretty fair assumption. Will you remember Chris Paul's career

as a success?

God, yes.

God yes.

Look, that, look, that 2018, back in, I, I understand how far I'm going back.

You got to understand, like, they were better than the Lakers.

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