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Today I am joined live and in the flesh by one of my favorite people follows personalities

and analysts in the basketball world.

It's Danny Leroux. Thanks, one, for having me.

Very excited to have you on here.

Of course, if you're not familiar with Danny Leroux,

you can catch his work at The Athletic,

dunked on podcast, dunked on basketball podcast,

and the Real GM podcast.

Lots of good stuff.

I'm going to link to all of that in the description of the show. Highly recommend, especially this time of year where he's doing, you know, lots of preview-type

stuff looking at the season.

It's great to get a national perspective on what people are thinking of the Nuggets.

And that's what we're going to get today, a national person's perspective on the Denver Nuggets

and a national person's perspective on what I thought was kind of an ugly preseason game.

Yeah, it really was. I mean, there was some sloppiness early on. I mean, you know,

Yokic's timing on his passes is usually unbelievable. There were a few little misconnections,

and that's unusual. And, you know, it's preseason. You don't want to read too much into it. And then

maybe the most interesting part of the game, other than Blake Beasley, which I'm sure we'll

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