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Today show, special guest, Joel Rush joins us from Forbes Sports.

Joel has been covering the nuggets since 2005.

He's written for Forbes, BSN Denver, which was DMVR before his DMVR, and Roundball

Mining Company and more.

Roundball Mining Company was one of a handful of blogs that were existing and then kind of

merged into one or one bigger one down the line. Joel. roundball mining company was one of a handful of blogs that were existing and then kind of merged

merged into one or one bigger one down the line. Joel, thanks so much for joining me today.

Thank you. Excited to be here. So first off, I want to help people know that, you know, if they watch

the Nuggets postgame commentary, they'll often hear you on the Zoom questions, asking questions

over the last couple of years.

And one of the reasons that you've been on Zoom is because you're actually not in Denver.

You actually cover the team not just outside of Denver.

You're in Japan, Yokohama, Japan.

Yokohama Japan.

That's exciting.

So first question I have for you, I don't know why.

I think, like, I was in the True Hoop Network with Demvermite Company back in the day.

So, like, this may have passed through my brain at one point.

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