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I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown Hornets, and your Shot Clock Sherpa,

guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories with the help of Lockdown's local experts.

And with me, are two of Lockdown's premier national NBA experts from the Lockdown Nuggets

podcast and senior NBA writer for the Action Network. We've got Matt Moore and from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast and senior NBA writer for the Action Network.

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head candy there. Love the hat there from Hayes from the Lockdown Bulls podcast.

Give me that hat. Okay, Matt Hayes. Let's start in Denver where Russell Westbrook is playing his best basketball in

years, stepping into the starting lineup and making a strong case to stay there. But with established

stars like Jamal Murray and rising contributors like Christian Brown in the mix, the Nuggets face a

critical question. Will rewarding Westbrook disrupt their chemistry and dash their hopes at another championship?

Matt, we'll start with you as our leading Nuggets expert.

Before we dig into that existential question, though,

what's making the Westbrook-Yok-Yok-Jap parrying in the starting lineup good enough

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