What is up, everybody, and welcome in to the DNVR Lounge right here at the DNVR bar in the corner of Colfax, New York.

This is the Keeping It 1000 podcast with myself, Adamades, former Denver Nuggets coach, George Carl.

George, it's good to see you.

Adam, happy, happy end of summer.

Happy end of summer, indeed.

Players are starting to get back in town.

You're starting to see the pickup games happening, media days like two and a half weeks away.

Starting to heat up.

I'm ready for it.

It's going to be a really interesting year. I mean, there are a lot of young teams and a lot of young players that weren't good

enough last year, but maybe one or two of them could be going to good enough this year.

I feel like a lot of the teams, one of the stories around the NBA is a lot of the teams

are the same.

The Lakers made a big splash, but a lot of the teams are running it back this year for whatever reason.

I was kind of surprised that Denver didn't go after young players.

I thought coming back with veteran players, I kind of like.

Yeah.

You know, my mentality is when you're good, you try to win with veteran players more than you do with young players.

They have a great challenge ahead of them with the Murray situation. But I just think Monta is going to be ready for that.

And I think they got enough depth to still try to be a top four maybe.

I'm surprised at how many people i talk to and with no connection

to the nuggets when i say people i mean analysts well i talked to analysts around that are picking

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