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Last time we talked about nuggets in the Lakers series, I said, don't let those national figures tell you, those pundits,

trick you into thinking that the Lakers have a chance

after they came back from 20 and they still lost in game one.

These moral victories that they're trying to claim that they had are not real.

Let's face it, like what the national media wanted, and we know this, was Boston LA finals. We know that.

They tried everything possible to make it happen. Like, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.

They push that narrative at every opportunity. Just because you push a narrative doesn't mean that's the outcome that we're going to get, right?

For example, Lakers lost game one.

According to the national media, no, the Lakers didn't really lose.

They figured something out.

They got some kinks ironed.

And now they've got Denver on the ropes.

Denver won, game one.

No, they didn't.

Just Denver's actually in trouble.

Denver is actually really should be scared right now by what the Lakers have figured out. Yokic goes insane, fills up the

stat sheet. What was the stat sheet again? 34, 21, and 14. Nope. When Rui was on him, though, they went scoreless

as a team and he didn't score. If you're a fan of basketball, that commentary

is gross. If you're a fan of the heat and the nuggets who have been slandered along the way,

they only talk about the losing teams because those teams, quote-unquote, move the needle as

narrative national teams, that's unforgivable. That is unforgivable. I get this. I know this. I'm a

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