How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Hello and welcome to The Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave DeFourer, here with Trevon Edwards for your Tuesday morning

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A lot of stuff to get into, so we're going to jump right in.

And Trey, unfortunately, right off the bat, we've got injury news.

On Monday afternoon, there was reporting that Nuggets Forward Michael Porter Jr. is going to

undergo a surgical procedure on his lower back and is going to be out indefinitely. Porter's been

out for a few weeks now and he's been looking for a non-surgical option and while they've waited,

he just missed games. And Trey, this is this is bad news. Obviously for Michael Porter, it's bad news for the

Nuggets. I mean, the good news is that his contract that he just signed will kick in in the

offseason. So at least he's covered there. But it seems like he's going to be out for the season.

And Jamal Murray is not back until the second half. And all of a sudden, they just don't

have anybody. Yeah, it's unfortunate, obviously, for this Nuggets team, it seems like one thing after the other.

But, you know, like you said, MPJ's contract is guaranteed.

It's going, it's carrying over to the next season.

So he's situated, but it's still unfortunate because the Nuckets was one of those teams that you felt like if healthy, we're going to take the, you know, take the next step to be one of the top dogs in the West. And, you know, it doesn't seem like that. And Yogy's just going to have to figure it out, which Mike Malone coaches his teams very well, and they somehow

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