What is up, everybody?

Welcome to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown NBA Network.

I'm your host, Adam Mattis, from DNVR, the DNVR.com.

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I am joined today by a very special guest.

Somebody I've been excited to have on since Summer League.

Since we had our first discussion together at Summer League,

he is the operator of InStreet Clothes.

He's injury analysts for InStreet Close. He's injury

analyst for smart and rotel wire and a certified athletic trainer. Jeff Stotz. Jeff, how's it going?

I'm doing well. Appreciate you having me on. I'm excited to talk to you because in addition to this,

I want to mention you also have been keeping a database now. For how many years has it been six years,

an injury database?

Yeah, so it's it's been a ongoing from like basically for the last six seasons on but I built a historical database. So the database goes all the way back to 2005-2006. So I spent I spent two years building that out and then the last six

years kind of just doing as it goes so the project started about six years ago and is

actually about eight years ago and has progressed to what it is today so that makes that in

addition to obviously just the expertise in his field it makes Jeff one of the best, if not the best person to talk to about sort of trends in the NBA and in sports, injury trends, and then also just kind of talk about what to expect from certain players and how injuries can affect their long-term trajectory.

And it makes them especially interesting when it comes to the Denver Nuggets because they have some very

high-profile players that have some somewhat unique injuries. So that's where we're going to

start with Michael Porter Jr. And we finally have gotten a chance to see him play. First of all,

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