Welcome to Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day.

Before we get started, I want to tell you about Locked-on NBA on Fridays with Nick Engstead of Lackdown Mavericks and some guy named Adam Mariz.

I don't know who this guy is, but they always do a power rank of whatever's going on in the NBA.

So they do a power ranking. That's awesome. Follow the Lockdown NBA podcast today,

wherever you get podcasts and support Adam. First of all, more than anything. Also, I'm on

Thursdays. But really, you want to get it for Adam. On today's show, I have some special

guests for you. I am talking to in the second segment, we're going to talk to Locked-on Lakers, Andy Kamenetsky

and get a sense for exactly what the Lakers are going to look like this season.

Is Anthony Davis actually going to play the five?

Who else is going to be in that rotation?

I was surprised by some of the answers.

We're going to do basically on Fridays, I'm doing two segments with our other locked on contributors for the Western Conference teams.

I'm going to focus on the Western Conference because the Nuggets play in the Western Conference.

The questions won't be necessarily Nuggets centric, though you will kind of learn a little bit of how they match up and those kind of things.

I will say that I did go on locked on warriors with West Goldberg,

and we talked about the Nuggets and talked a lot about how that dynamic, and honestly,

there's a lot of respect between the two. And, you know, it's interesting just because, like,

I will tell you from talking to these other teams, there's a sense from the other riders,

at least, that like the Nuggets are considered a serious threat in the West, which they should be given what they return,

even with Jamal coming back.

So we'll do that.

We'll talk to Andy Kavanaugh in the second segment.

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