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That's Dunk Don, dot supporting cast, dot FM. Well yesterday we talked with Mike Prada

about the Washington Wizards and they are just now beginning a very long rebuild, perhaps inspired

by the absolutely dominating postseason performance of the Denver Nuggets and here to talk about their

prospects for repeating that performance is at a modest of DNVR sports. How you doing? I'm doing

good. I didn't expect a Washington Wizards comparison as the lead in. That was that was a shock.

I didn't either. I really bad at them. I just I start rambling and I realized I'm actually

listening to me. And so I just yeah, no, it was not the right way to go, but because that's the

last podcast I recorded. It was on the brain. And that's that's what people get because we do not

edit here unless absolutely no. So unless we get a cap detail wrong, that's the only way we're

we're ever gonna. We're certainly not editing for content. That's funny. Yeah. So let me ask you this

first. The Nuggets have long kind of been either they seemed like to me at least the third or

fourth team in Colorado. How big was this championship run at the time? And does it feel like the

excitement about the nuggets has finally reached the fever pitch that having a player like Nicole

Yokitsch would indicate that it should. I mean, it was incredible run. It really won over the city.

I mean, I wouldn't say they're the third or fourth team. There's the Broncos and then there's

every other team fighting for number two. And it's just kind of whoever's good. And so it's the

bra, the nuggets is turned. But you know, it was a dominant run. And the 16 and 4 through the playoffs,

there just weren't a lot of losses. So it kind of felt like every night they stepped on the court,

they won they won or they were going to get a win. And as it went on, I think very early in that

process and that playoffs, it went from man, I hope they can do this. They could do it to oh,

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