NPDS - Nikola Jokic delivers us a Game 7! BATTLE FOR THE MVP!; Juan Soto makes his Yankee Stadium return! (Episode 1278)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘brilliant’ as in basketball IQ as in Nikola Jokic as in the Denver Nuggets as in the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Nuggets got it done at home on Thursday night and it’s all thanks to Nikola Jokic and his play. The game had so many fouls. So many runs of missed and made baskets. And now we’re off to OKC on Sunday. MVP vs MVP. (12:00) NPPOD. (20:08) Juan Soto is returning to Yankee Stadium for the first time as a Met. He was asked about his expectations and he said they are going to boo and they are allowed to boo. (30:32) Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island. (39:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Javy Baez and how he’s been able to turn things around. (46:30) The price of teams are going up and up and up and up! The 49ers are selling for a valuation of $8.5 billion! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.9	2025, and I'm going to man gush on Yokic of the Denver Nuggets. I have to start it. It's a bizarre way to start a show, especially a Friday show that's packed heading into a weekend, especially
1:05.4	on the eve of quite a big Nick game that's happening in New York, the subway series, lots of excitement
1:12.5	in this city. And my focus was on emotions because I don't get emotional too often. And I think
1:20.6	there are two things that are going to happen in this show that are going to get me. Not
1:24.3	that I'm planning them because I'd like to remain calm on this particular
1:28.4	Friday. But watching Yokic last night as the Nuggets won game six, 119, 107, my emotion was not
1:36.2	that, hey, we won our pick of the day. That wasn't it. My emotion was not all right. We get a
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