is it always darkest before the dawn?

We're going to talk about game five for the Denver Nuggets,

what this moment means in Nuggets history

and whether Nicole Eokic and Jamal Murray

are playing their last game together here on Locked on Nuggets.

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You've got real, you've got real, real times are tough, but I'm trying to be brave.

That's like, yeah, for the, for those that aren't on social media or aren't on Twitter,

I had to push my car across four lanes of traffic on I-25 today. So like not in an

awesome mood, but we are powering through and having a grand old time. And yeah, we're going to

talk about this Nuggets team because I'm sure that if they're going to win and come back from

3-1, it's going to feel like pushing it across four lanes of traffic on I-25.

That's probably what it's going to feel like in this moment.

And I wanted to start like here because at the beginning of this series, when we did the

DenVenger's episode, you asked some very good questions Asked a very good question about the stakes,

about the stakes of this moment and what it felt like and what this was going to look like

if things went wrong. And I said they might have to break it up. And now it doesn't really

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