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All right, folks, it's just me tonight.

Adam, as you can probably imagine, is pretty emotionally spent.

It's been a rough one for Nuggets fans.

As I'm sure listening to this, you're having a rough one too.

I am going to be honest with you.

I struggle with where to go.

We have to talk about Jamal's injury some more.

We talked about it last night. The diagnosis today confirmed it's the ACL tear. He's going to have

surgery. It's tough to know where to go from here. So we're going to try and work through it in three

phases. First, I'll talk about where we are and how bad things are, which, as you can probably imagine, pretty bad. Things are not great. I'm going to make sure that you're aware of why people keep saying it's that bad. So at least you're not like confused. I don't want Nuggets fans being like, why is everyone saying this is that bad? I mean, guys come back from the ACL and they do, but we'll talk about why it's bad in the

first segment.

And the second segment, we'll talk short term.

Okay, we'll look at what's happening right now with the nuggets, the rest of this season,

and I'll try and give you some perspective on that.

And the third segment, that's where we're going to try and find the light in the tunnel. We're going to find it. We're not going to try. We're going to find it.

I am going to be your optimist today. I'm going to lead you to being hopeful about the future.

And we're going to do that in segment three.'s the most severe knee injury that you can suffer.

It's not the most severe injury in the NBA.

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