Locked on Denver Nuggets - 7.16 - Where do Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic rank in terms of current NBA duos?

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4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode, I am joined by Ryan Blackburn to talk about his recent article on the comparison between Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, and Kobe and Shaq. Don't laugh. Okay laugh a little bit. But Ryan does a nice job of explaining why the comparison works, at least on some level. Then, we rank the 12 best duos in the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, your daily podcast on the Denver Nuggets.
0:11.2	Now, here is your host from Denver Stiffs.com, Adam Mottes.
0:16.7	What is up, everybody?
0:17.9	Welcome to the Locked on Nuggets podcast, probably the Lockton NBA Network.
0:21.3	I'm your host, Adam Mottis, from Denver Stiffs.com, the largest Denver Nuggets blog and community on the web.
0:26.0	Check us out, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
0:29.7	Today's episode of the show, I am joined from Denverstiffs.com.
0:33.2	It's Ryan Blackburn.
0:34.0	Ryan, what's happening?
0:35.3	Not much, man.
0:36.0	How are you doing? I'm doing good.
0:38.0	Fresh off of, what I think was a very solid day at Denver Stiffs, and it included
0:42.3	your article, which, so you brought on, you enjoy playing the role of sort of, I won't
0:48.7	say, you like stirring the pot in this one way that you compared Jamal Murray. I guess you compared
0:56.4	Yokic and Murray to Kobe and Shaq, which at least on its surface is completely and absolutely
1:02.3	ridiculous. Yeah, I would actually agree with that. I think that once you look at the careers
1:08.8	from a kind of a retrospective way, it seems almost ludicrous to put two, I would say, top 15 players of all time in the same vein as Nicola Yocach and Jamal Murray right now.
1:21.5	But really what I was trying to do is frame it as a, here's where these guys are right now, here's what the nuggets want them to be and I think
1:29.2	I think that's actually a pretty reasonable duo to model their games after yeah Kobe's such
1:34.9	Kobe's one of the more interesting players I think all time because his like I don't want to
1:41.1	get too much into the like well was he overrated this or that, but there is something to be said for his like not efficient game that is not necessarily an analytics darling.
1:53.1	Like the box plus minus stuff doesn't have him as a top 15 player.
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