The Eastern Conference sucks and everybody knows it.

But Ryan and I for years have kind of tripped back and forth to each other exactly how much more the Eastern Conference sucks.

So we're going to debate it today and we're going to rank every single NBA team on a one to 5 scale very quickly.

Plus, I would like to talk about how awesome Nicola Yokic is from the standpoint of his durability.

He is an absolute tank.

We're going to talk about it on Lockdown Nuggets.

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Welcome to Locked on Nuggets, your daily DeVern Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Thanks for joining us, making this party today, being with us Monday through Friday, hanging out with us as we do shows throughout the week. No show yesterday. Sorry, I had some stuff going on and wasn't able to get to it, but we're back tonight here with no jinx because we'd never, ever, ever jinx anybody. My name's Matt Moore. I'm the senior MBA writer for the Action Network. I write a Denver focus site called the Denver Dig, which you can find using the old Google search engine or Bing. Some of you might use Bing. Safari. I don't know. There's got to be other ones. You could use the AIs. I'm sure they could find it too. Maybe. Eventually the robots will find us all. His name is Ryan Blackburn. He's host to Pickax and Roll podcast, and he's the senior NBA writer for MaaSports covering your Denver Nuggets. Thanks for being with us here on a Wednesday night. It's Thursday when you're listening on the podcast. Hope your week's going great. I hope you guys are looking forward to a great weekend as I think it's actually going to cool down a little bit since it has been, well, hot as parts around these parts. So glad to have you guys with us on today's show. I want to talk a little bit about the fact that Nicola Yokic is still just absolutely turning out

like these monster performances for Serbia in Eurobasket play in the friendlies all through Eurobasket.

Then he's going to play in the NBA season again and the endure the durability of of Yokic and a testament to his endurance.

It deserves credit.

So we're going to talk about that on today's show.

But we start with this exercise.

I asked Ryan Blackburn today.

I said, I want you to take every NBA team and I want you to rank them on a one to five scale.

This is my favorite method for doing literally anything, by the way.

If you want to put something from a qualitative concept into a quantitative concept, the Likert scale is without question the best.

And the Likert scale is the one to five.

And then if you do surveys, it'll be, do you strongly disagree somewhat disagree don't care agree or strongly

agree right and that that scale is very is very good for establishing things because it does force

you to differentiate between okay to great and i think it's got less of the connotations of

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