What is up everybody and welcome to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown

NBA Network.

I'm your host Adam Mades, and I am joined by my esteemed colleague and co-host from the

Action Network, senior NBA writer Matt

Moore. Matt, I took a week off and a lot of things seem to start happening here in the NBA.

I'm excited. Well, I don't know if excited's the right word. Actually, I am. Well, you know,

screw it. I'm excited to talk to you today about some of the latest developments.

So in psych when I was a psychology major in college,

and so there's this term for when your alerts and your body is awake

and your mind is responsive and it's aroused.

Okay.

And it doesn't necessarily have to mean the connotation.

Yeah.

Taking it too. But I think it would be fair that if we could mean the connotation. Yeah. You're taking it to.

But I think it would be fair that if we could remove the connotation from the word,

you're aroused.

Well, you know what?

Let's do it.

I'm aroused.

I'm very aroused to be talking to you today about the Denver Nuggets.

So I guess on that note, we can dive can dive right into it and the latest is that

Nikola Yokic is in route. Oh wait, no, that was four days ago. He's in Chicago. Oh, wait, no,

...