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Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets

How Jamal Murray became a Top 10 Player in the NBA

Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets

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4.7740 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Swipa and Ryan go over Jamal Murray's historic season and his ranking among players and point guards this season. They also discuss practice, including the availability of Cam Johnson, Jonas Valanciunas, and Christian Braun.

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0:00.0

Jamal Murray is playing just as battle as well, I think, as anyone could have ever hoped.

0:07.6

But just how high is he going to reach on some of the awards this award season?

0:13.5

I have a theory.

0:14.6

And we're going to have the conversation about Jamal Murray and his numbers.

0:17.5

Also, we might have gotten an update about Jonas Balanchunis and Cam Johnson.

0:22.1

Ryan Blackmer was at practice. We're going to talk about that.

0:24.7

The Nuggets also, the very famous 40-20 pace.

0:29.3

Funny enough, they're still on track to maybe get there.

0:33.2

Also, I want to ask Ryan, what is your confidence level in the Denver Nuggets right now

0:37.4

and any other practice notes that he has today?

0:39.8

But y'all know what time is this is Swipe him.

0:41.9

That's Ryan.

0:42.9

This is Locked on Nuggets.

0:50.2

You are Locked on Nuggets.

0:52.6

Your daily Denver Nuggets podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

1:01.8

What's going to y'all? Welcome to Locked on Nuggets. This is your daily Denver Nuggets podcast.

1:08.8

I'm your host, Swiper with one of his friends, one of the co-host for Lockdown Nuggets. This is the Ryan Blackburn, the man with the plan, the man with the chart, the man with the numbers, the man with the stats, the man that was at practice, got a lot of great things to get into today, y'all. This is going to be a phenomenal episode, y'all, but today's episode are brought to you by Fandul. Make sure y'all tip in. Before tip off, check the Fandle app and see what's dropping during NBA Happy Hour. So today, every Friday, from 6 to 7.30 p.m. Eastern checking with Fandle, y'all. So, Ryan, you know. You think the, you think the locker room calls me the man with the chart? You think that's my nickname in the Nuggets locker room at this point? I wouldn't be surprised if they've got some other nicknames for me, but I got to love it. Always the pessimism. I'm sure when they talk about you in the locker room, you're definitely the stats guy. I think you asked good questions in the press or two, so I wouldn't be surprised if you had a good reputation among the players. You've been there forever as well. Yeah, my seventh year covering the team. It's not like I haven't put into the work. I've been a little bit before before everything gets crazy.

2:18.3

What was your first year covering Denver?

2:20.3

It was the COVID season.

2:22.3

It was 2019-20.

2:24.3

That was the year that I took over Denver Stiffs for Adam Aris.

2:29.3

And we, yeah, it was quite the weird year because we were covering the season and then we were not covering the season for a while.

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