I'm I'm Well, well, well, we almost did have a Paul Reed victory tour.

I think we're still having a Paul Reed victory tour, quite frankly.

It wasn't quite meant to be.

We didn't know what we were going to be talking about when we came into the studio.

Obviously, Joel Embed was a late scratch, as was half of the Sixers team, including

80% of their starting lineup, traveling to Denver for a much anticipated what we thought was

going to be a letdown matchup against these two, quote-unquote, juggernauts. How you doing,

Kyle? That was fun. Derek, I said it to you as we were walking in.

Good teams win.

Great teams cover. And that's why the Nuggets only won by six points against the hospital sixers tonight. I'm just coming out the gate. Hayton, Paul Reed, excellent performance from him. You know, a lot of other stuff. Do we want to talk about the game first? or should we just lead with what everyone is actually talking about, which is all the Joel Denver nonsense? Yeah. I mean, so obviously

Joe Mede was a late scratch because of left knee soreness. You also had Maxie out with a left

ankle sprain, Tobias Harris out with an illness, Anthony Melton still out with the back, Robert Covington still out with the bone bruise in his knee. Bobba, we can throw him in there as well. He was out with right knee inflammation. That's four starters, six key players total. The one that everyone cares about is Joel Embed and that knee. It's now the second stint of games that he will have missed because of that.

He had a came back for, was he back for one game, two games?

I feel like I should know it off the top of my head.

Certainly came back for at least.

All the games blend together at this one.

But he's now back out.

He wasn't even on the injury report earlier on in the day, went through his pregame shoot-around.

The training staff flagged him, said, no, we don't think he should play.

He was a late scratch.

Now, the fourth straight game that Embed has missed in Denver, again, one of them was COVID.

By the way, you will never be able to forget that because the Denver people apparently

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