What is up, everybody? Welcome to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown

NBA Network. I'm your host, Adam Mottis, from D&R. I'm joined today by our draft

who's going to walk us through the draft, and not just the draft. It's going to walk us

through this draft, next couple, and just the nature of how some of these things are changing

with regards to how high school hoops are becoming

more and more important. She is a draft expert also writes for Yahoo Sports. It's Kristen P.

Kristen, thank you so much for sitting down with me and spending some time to talk about the draft.

Anytime, listen, I have been covering this class way too long. It's going to be 146 days

from when the draft should have been to November 18th. So whatever questions you have on Nuggets

targets, bring it on, I got it. So that's actually a question is, for me, psychologically,

you turn things over at the draft to the next year.

It's like, okay, we're going to this next year.

Is it for you?

Does it feel like that where you haven't looked forward or you can't look forward?

You're just kind of sitting on this one like in like Groundhog Day for eight months on the same draft.

Does it feel like that to you?

It totally does. And it's like that to you? It totally does.

And it's like the basketball universe is playing a joke on me because going, looking at this

college basketball year, it was a not so great college basketball year. I watched a lot of bad

basketball. And then they and then the basketball got take away an NCAA tournament. And then we

have no basketball for a couple months. And then they're like, here, Kristen, here's a draft

class that you're not super high on. You have to find a way to cover it for seven months.

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