Look, Alper and Shangoon's a really good player, but I'm going to tell you why you need to keep his name out of sentences that have the name Nicoli Yokic in it.

Plus, Ryan, I was talking about when we knew that Yokic was an all-time great and should never even try and have small ball at all this season,

all that and more.

Plus hijinks galore on Locked on Nuggets.

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Yokic was an all-time great should Denver even try a small ball and I'm going to let you know why

the name baby Yokic for Alper Nshengun bugs me so much and I'm going to put down some strong takes about the comparison before their matchup in

Eurobasket coming up.

My name is Matt Moore.

I'm a senior NBA writer for the Action Network.

I'm joined by Ryan Blackburn and Mile High Sports.

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