I root for the Denver Nuggets.

They're a professional basketball team from Colorado.

That's where I grew up.

I can't help but like them because they were the team.

And that's the team that's where you're from.

That's who you fall in love with.

And that's who you like.

And they've been bad for a long time.

But I don't care.

I just root for my team no matter what. And so while the major markets

were getting to watch people like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, over here in our

little dusty old cow town, we're watching Bryant Stith and Aaron Aflalo and Rayfla Friends. And you probably don't know any of those names, which is my point.

Well, maybe you know who Rayfla Friends is if you're from Kansas.

But the point is, I've rooted for players that you haven't heard of.

Those are great guys, by the way.

No knock on them.

They're really good basketball players.

But I've rooted for players you haven't heard of because I root for a small market team and then you get kind of a chip on

your shoulder and like, well, we're kind of the minority around here. It's us against the world.

The major markets get all the great players. And there's this lore that is built up around

being a fan of the Denver Nuggets. Well, then in the mid-2000s, the Nuggets drafted a kid

named Carmelo Anthony in the same draft that LeBron James and Dwayne Wade came out in.

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