Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are speaking to absolutely one of my favorites, Michael Lee, basketball writer, extraordinary, sports and culture writer,

sports and politics writer, all of it for The Washington Post. And we are going to speak about

the Denver Nuggets, a team that hasn't gotten nearly enough shine, either on this podcast

or in the basketball universe, and G g they're going to the NBA finals after

sweeping lebrons lakers so why don't we spend a little time and not talk about what happened to the

lakers or what's up with the celtics or how are the heat doing everything that they're doing

uh jimmy butler forget all that we're talking nikola yokic we're going to Nicola Yokic. We're going to talk some Michael

Porter Jr. We're going to talk some Jamal Murray and we're going to talk some Mike Malone.

And you're going to hear my comparison of Nicola Yokic to the players of yesteryear. And we're

going to see if Michael Lee agrees. Basically, I'll give you a little hint. It's a little Moses Malone, a little Larry Bird,

a little Magic Johnson, you mix it up in the genetic splicer,

you get Nicola Yokich.

And we're going to see if Michael Lee thinks I'm on point with that

or if he thinks I'm out to lunch.

Also, yes, I'm going to speak about the passing of Jim Brown.

So get ready for that.

And that's the show.

That's a full show.

So let's jump right on it and speak to the man himself, Michael Lee.

Mike Lee, you're the only person I wanted to talk to about the Denver Nuggets.

So thanks so much for joining, man.

Hey, thanks for having me.

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