Denver GM Arturas Karnisovas

The Woj Pod

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4.6 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Denver Nuggets GM Arturas Karnisovas joins the Woj Pod to discuss the Western Conference arms race, the discovery and development of All-NBA center Nikola Jokic, the evolution of scouting perceptions toward European prospects, the KGB's role in allowing him to be the first USSR-born player to be allowed to leave for college basketball, playing against the Dream Team in the 1992 Olympics with Sabonis and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome in to another edition of the Wojjpod.
0:08.4	My guest this week, Denver Nuggets General Manager, Arturus, Karnisivis.
0:14.0	We talk about the Nuggets move into the elite of the NBA, their quest to build a Western conference and an NBA champion,
0:24.3	the arms race in the NBA this summer.
0:28.7	And we talk about his unique path to the NBA,
0:32.5	the first Russian-born player to be allowed in to college basketball, a star at Seton Hall,
0:40.8	and a member of the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic team with our Vita Sabonis, Serunus Marcellanus,
0:50.7	one of the real pioneers in the modern front office of the NBA, Arturis Karnisivis,
0:59.5	our visit was recently at the NBA Summer League in Vegas.
1:04.8	Here with Denver Nuggets, General Manager, Arturis Karnisvus.
1:08.4	How are you?
1:09.4	How are you doing, Wals?
1:10.3	I'm great.
1:11.9	We're in Vegas.
1:13.5	The very end of Summer League, which is like last one out of Summer League, turn out the lights.
1:19.1	Not a lot of people left here, except for those still playing.
1:21.8	Teams are still here.
1:23.2	You're chasing around the AAU circuit of basketball with your boys, which is not exactly
1:29.8	similar to how you grew up playing basketball in Lithuania. This is some racket they've got
1:35.5	out here. That's correct. So I'm stuck. I'm stuck here for a long time. Done with the
1:41.7	Summer League and now finishing up with
1:44.5	AAU games.
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