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Coming at your Monday evening, it's January 16th after the Wolves lost in

afternoon MLK Day game against the Utah Jazz. We're going to get to that game, of course,

but this episode is going to have a little bit different of a flow to it, given that we're doing

this in the afternoon after an afternoon game on a Monday.

So we're going to start with me solo here.

And then later on in the episode, I'll bring in Harrison Wind, who covers the Denver Nuggets for DNVR Sports, where Harrison I will preview Wednesday's matchup against the nuggets.

Let's kind of talk a little bit about the history of the wolves

Nuggets matchup. And also I wanted to ask Harrison about the kind of Anthony Edwards versus

Aaron Gordon for an all-star spot proposition. So we'll dig into all that. That's at the end of

the episode. But I wanted to start this one by talking about something I've been meaning

to get to with the trade deadline coming upon us. And it's about three weeks away from the trade

deadline. I want to kind of start trade season by setting the scene for the wolves, right? I'm not

going to be doing fake trades, but I want to kind of lay out the landscape a little bit of

what trade season might look like for this team, specifically as that might or might not

connect to DeAngel Russell. I mean, Russell, like Nas Reid and Jalen O'Ewell, are on expiring

contracts, which naturally is going to lead their names to show up on the

trade rumor mill, just like it did with Patrick Beverly last season and happens with a bunch of

players on expiring contracts every year. But Russell's expiring contract, it's a different

proposition than Beverly's last year. And it's certainly different than Nause or Jalen's. And that's different

because Nas and Jalen, you know, they're making about the minimum. They're making $1.9 million while

Russell is making $31.4 million this year. Dilo being in the final year of his max contract at

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