Real GM Radio with West Goldberg is part of the Real GM Radio Network. Check out Motekeel and Jared Dubman on the double dribble every Monday and Wednesday. On Monday, they talked about their takeaways from an instant classic between the Spurs and the Nuggets and some things that they're noting for the Spurs ahead of the playoffs. They also talked about if the Lakers are truly screwed after the Luca and Austin Reeves' injuries and a really interesting rookie of the year race. You're going to want to check that out.

On Thursday, I'm going to be joined by Basketball Poetries, Mike Shearer, on Good Take, to share the best takes that we've cooked up this week. Good Take goes up every Thursday. And today, I'll be joined by Adam Matas of DNVR Sports and the All-NBA podcast to talk about his thoughts on the Nuggets win streak,

that Nugget Spurs game,

and whether or not Niko Yokic needs to win... the All-NBA podcast to talk about his thoughts on the Nuggets win streak, that Nuggett Spurs game.

And whether or not Nika Ljokic needs to win a second championship and what he needs to do

to win that second championship, always enjoy talking with Adam.

And then after that, Real GM's draft expert, Zach Cohen joins me to talk about Michigan

winning the national championship in the tournament's biggest risers

ahead of the NBA draft.

A ton of stuff to get to.

Hope you enjoy.

Let's jump in.

Adam Madez is here.

He joins me in the middle of this nine-game win streak for the Denver Nuggets, Adam.

Great time to have you back on the show. It's been too long.

But look, they beat Portland last night. The big win sort of punctuated the Spurs over the weekend.

I want to go back to that Spurs game before we talk about bigger picture Nugget stuff.

Like did that win?

Is that the sort of win that a team like Denver needs?

Understanding that, you know, Yokic, the experience, you know, this team has won the title before.

But like, for this season, did you need that win as almost proof of concept of what this team could potentially do? There's no question. 100% it was the most important game of the year because of that. They really hadn't had a lot of statement wins in the back half of the season. And so you start to think, well, are you going to get to the playoffs without a single one of these games that, you know, tested the medal and he came out on top. And so I think it absolutely

was needed. But it's funny because there's three games left in the season. Last year with three

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