You're listening to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, your daily podcast on the Denver Nuggets.

Now, here's your host from Denverstiff's.com, Adam Mottis.

You had to know it was coming.

Of course, if any day, to play the funk music, the happy music.

To get pumped up, it had to be this one. The Denver Nuggets, your Denver Nuggets,

are going to the postseason for the first time since Hector was a pup, as Chris Marlow would say.

And on top of that, they did it in great fashion. You know, I was starting to worry that the

Nuggets were going to get into the playoffs on the backs of Sacramento King's loss and an off night.

And how anticlimactic would that have been?

Instead, they do so in Boston against the Celtics on a road win, a statement win, their fourth win in a row.

And just a lot of good vibes around this team.

It's a great moment to be a Denver Nuggets fan, and I'm going to talk about that moment because I really do think this is a cool little period that we're in as Denver Nuggets fans,

and especially a fans of this specific team.

This team is in a very, very, very fun part of

their arc. And hopefully it only gets better from here, but regardless, this is a night I think

we're celebrating. This episode of the show is going to be on that win. I am going to wax poetic a little

bit at the end as I tend to do from time to time when there's a big moment, and this one qualifies.

But for the most part, we're just going to talk about the win over the Celtics, which was an important one.

So let's dive right into it.

Let me just say right off the top that I thought this was a game where the Nuggets process offensively was really good.

Really, really good. This was one of the better games I

thought from Yokic on the season, and the team as a whole, just the patience that they displayed

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