 what's the word y'all the season is wrapped and the Denver Nuggets are our NBA champions man congratulations to the Denver Nuggets this was a ridiculous run and I'm here to talk about it but before we do that let me give my flowers to the Miami Heat because there weren't many people in the world that thought going into the play-in that this Miami Heat team were going to run they will eventually have them in the NBA finals they lost the first play in game they were one minute away from losing the second play-in game to the Bulls they beat Jan Zedekumpo's Miami Miami Milwaukee Bucks who have you know Jan is being the best player in the league one of the best players in the league the favorite to win at all they beat New York who a lot of people thought would be able to beat them because of the depth and then they go and they beat the Boston Celtics the Celtics were a heavy favorite so they just went on a ridiculous streak one that I will never forget one for the ages and ultimately came up short but I do want to get my flowers man this is a team that has been respected throughout the course of recent history but this year felt different than any other year in the past where last year I feel like the Miami Heat had a lot of respect I think they were the one team the year before that they had respect but going into it as an 8c especially an 8c that lost a play-in game nobody gave them a chance me included I was asked while I was watching this game between the Bulls the Miami Heat I was on the Twitter show with Chen fry with with Taylor Rooks and they asked me about it as the Bulls felt like how does it feel to be in this game and we were winning at this moment how do you feel to be in this game I'm like it's cool but no matter who wins we're playing a game what did I say we're we're racing to a stop sign because in my mind the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls neither those teams have what it takes to take out the Bucks and they did that and they took out the Knicks and they took out the the Celtics and then ultimately they came up short in this one even though they made it a game man Jimmy Butler taking over for that couple minutes strategy like what was this for the first four games whatever you know it was a game it was an ugly game it was a sloppy game but it was a game nonetheless shout out to Miami Heat I'm curious to see what happens now because they're a super expensive team but let's off to you talk we'll get to that eventually so I'm recording this as things are going on I already see uh that Nicola Yolkens won the MVP obviously we knew that they just showed a clip of one of the Yolkens brothers picking him up and like tossing him around and he's smiling look look I'm watching this game with my fiance and my daughter and I'm like I'm telling how you know like Nicola Yolkens is like this this stoic dude keeps himself you don't really talk to the media you don't be like showing emotion other than on the court occasionally he gets frustrated we saw someone at today he's not an emotional dude but if there's any moment in time to show emotion it's today because you you the you just won the championship there are tons and tons of great NBA players average NBA players whatever that have never felt this moment they've never got to the peak of a basketball so I'm like if there's any moment to show emotion it's this one and what did he do buzzer sounding Jamal Murray's crime we don't talk about that everybody's showing emotion Yolkens is just going to the mighty good game good game good I'm like oh oh no and then they given the Larry O'Brien trophy Yolkens all the way in the back they tried they showing pans around to the team trying to find Yolkens he has seven foot new you can't even see him because he's so far in the back with his wife and his daughter so um just just a ridiculous run by Nicola Yolkens like really one that I can't exaggerate more of how much of a ridiculous run it was individually for him uh well every stop it away where it seemed like out of these having many games that they played in this playoffs he had one to two bad games think about that one to two bad this these are humans even the best of the best have both two bad games in the playoff run that's why you have a seven game series listen if I have a bad game too it's cool because I got the rest of these games to make it up Yolkens they really had it and then they had he had a bad game last game right bad game didn't matter see his team showed up and they won this series four to one and this game was ridiculous from the very first moment I I've known I knew that this was going to be a sloppy sloppy game because anybody that's won a championship always says that the game that is the hardest to win is to close out game because there's so much pressure to just end the season to to finally win the championship and it felt like that from the different nugget start off with four turnovers in the first five possessions they couldn't shoot for nothing and luckily for them the Miami he won't really own much either when they started off the game with a nice little run but eventually went on their own droughts and we eventually saw Jimmy Butler show up for like four minutes in the fourth quarter I was like oh man is he about the force of game six he didn't and selfish reasons I'm kind of upset I'm still going to Miami we still doing our last show because I saw some questions the link will be in the description if you want to come into Miami show Thursday night June 15th um people thought that because the series would end at five that we wouldn't still be going to Miami for our show we still in Miami with it we just hang out on basketball but we're gonna still perform to our best abilities I mentioned this before that that I am an emotional dude you know when I see somebody going through pain or anguish or whatever I use I usually empathize with that so when the buzzer rings and they show Jamal Murray he's on the ground like crying I feel for him man I feel for him towards ACL right after getting Eric Gordonham T when Eric World was on the roster they first traded for I think they was dangerous let's be real they was dangerous tears is ACL and that he he goes to rehab or whatever last season Yoko's wins MVP with Campazo as a starting point guard and all like it wasn't a pretty team and I remember going to the playoffs there were some rumors that Jamal Murray had been cleared to play basketball again but he decided whether to be physically or mentally or whatever he decided he was not ready to play basketball again and it was a small just a small little pocket small little pocket of criticism from NBA fans about that Yoko's out here giving you an MVP performance he just needs somebody to step up with him he already got AG just give him one more body he wasn't ready for that that's cool he comes back this season first first year back this the first year that they've had their collective core completely healthy and they did it with no problems with no problems anyway um he comes back as just a smooth 20 points per game and then turns it up absolutely into playoffs I will never forget that conference finals from him when he was averaging 32 points per game and the Lakers didn't know what to do they know if they should put a guard on them should they put Jervian to put on them should they do whatever should they switch it should they didn't know he was dominating so he went from where he thought that he was dead he thought he was damaged goods y'all think about that when he was injured going through his rehab and everything he thought that the different knockers are going to trade him because he was making this money and they wanted to win and he was contributing so now for him to be an NBA champion and doing it not as a guy as one of the guys you know what I'm saying he wasn't a guy he was one of the guy so just a great overall story um and I'm happy for him and I'm happy for yoke I'm happy for uncle Jeff because it's been a long journey for him and Smith it's been a long journey for those to do those two dudes collectively to play for like 30 days they've been working hard to get to this NBA championship and they got it but this this is like I hope that this kills a lot of the the ex-player can't win the championship as the best player I know it's like by a per person basis but actually let me see if I can find the video 10 months ago there was a video that I titled there are too many bad Nikola Yoke's takes and in this video I break down the argument from this fellow here no disrespect to him but I'm just saying in general where after the nuggets get eliminated by the Warriors last season how how there was there was a narrative being pushed about him not being good enough to be the best player on a championship team and 10 months ago I knew that that was just a dumb dumb dumb take I think most people knew that that was a dumb dumb take because we're talking about a two-time NBA MVP and in this video uh this this podcast host is breaking down his reasons why he doesn't believe that Yoke itch could be the best player on the championship team part of it was his usage rate being too high which is just in the moment it was just such a dumb response to a guy that like if there's anybody in the league that I want to have the ball all the time it's this dude because he's not strictly a basket getter he gets everybody involved he he says what do you say an assist makes two people happy and that's the way he plays ball so this if there's anybody that I want the ball in his hands the most it's Nikola Yoke itch but all of these narratives were created on the basis or on a series where Nikola Yoke didn't have a second best player and another player that's Max and that's Michael Boyd Jr. I ain't saying Michael Boyd Jr. the third best player I'm giving that to Aaron Gordon but he's missing two of his top three teammates and there was conversations about him not being good enough to do it and in the moment it was crazy I didn't know if this was going to be the year that they was going to do it but I knew for sure that Yoke itch had what it take even if he never did win it because there are so many different factors to win a championship you have to put the right pieces around any player you're gonna be the best player of all time but if they ain't right piece around you you're not gonna be able to do it have the right pieces around you have the right path in the right amount of luck you need skill an immense amount of skill but you need a little bit of luck you just it's just objectively true every single championship run has benefited from a little bit of luck what have they been an injury from an opposing team or whatever to say that a player can't be the best on a championship team just feels weird because it things just have to break right especially for a guy of his caliber it just felt like an asinine argument 10 months ago and it feels even worse now if you probably this dude because the first season of them being completely healthy they did it this is the first year like I honestly thought that it would take some time because remember Eric Gordon got traded here he played like eight games with Jamal Murray before he got injured so now we're trying to put this court together yes by important junior Jamal Murray and Yoke it's been playing together for I think four seasons now but to add a guy like Eric Gordon for the first time I thought it might have taken a year or so you know what I'm saying nope right path right opportunity and dominant performances from the best player in the league never been a different but I will be there because a part of our tour part of our tour is going to whatever city ended up winning it um and doing the live show so the the season opening next year hopefully I got tickets to the game I get to see the ring ceremony and I'll be in Denver for the first time um but for the fans I like to see I don't know is Denver a small market see that just lets you know that the American school system has failed me I don't know the size of Denver is a small market team is a big market regardless I'm just gonna say not small market big market but a market or team that hadn't had this level of success to finally be able to do it because you had to do the right things it's not like they had the first overall pick every year or even once and they got the generational talent that they didn't draft brah first overall you know what I'm saying they had to do it the hard way they drafted the two-time MVP with the 41st overall pick during the Taco Bell commercial they drafted Jamal Murray I think seven they took a chance on Michael Porter Jr who was the number one dude of his high school high school class but had multiple back surge before he entered the league he said you know what we believe in him we're gonna empower him to play his game but also give him an opportunity and we're gonna use what the 14th over I don't remember the exact pick we're gonna give him a chance and it worked this dates back to even before that when they had to make the decision between Nikola Jokas and Yusuf Nerkic that's how far back we talking about man I also have baseball on and for some reason mlb.com just auto plays games without you saying that just scared me by the way um but from making that right decision in the moment you don't say they did a ton of right things now it's not all perfect because because they they they did draft Donovan mention they did draft Donovan mention you man you feel me um so it's not all perfect but the things that they hit on they really really hit on and I was on a podcast um a little while ago not a little while ago this is like three or four days ago and they were asking me if I had a hundred dollars to put on the team to win the championship for next season who would I put it on and I put it on the Denver Nuggets and mostly part of that was because they don't have any question marks other than Bruce Brown Bruce Brown could get a back from somebody because he was amazing all playoff run he's the type of dude that's going to get more money than maybe what the Denver Nuggets can offer but other than that they're going to be able to bring back this core and say like every other competing team of every other championship level team at least right now on uh June 12th we don't know a free agency or trade is going to look like every other team has major question marks whether they be can they resign this player do they trade this guy do they trade this pick this one this is the one team without any major decisions to make because yoke is going to be good next season Jamal Murray should be even better next season consider he's going to have a full year under himself after the ACL tear and all the other dudes will be their stuff of Bruce like you know what I'm saying and then they have the 20 39 37th overall pick this year so I don't know can they draft another Bruce Brown can they draft Christian Braun 2.0 just they've done a really good job even though they have had some misses like see not see not as an NBA champion right now but he couldn't play a single second other than garbage time um a rinse that I didn't expect as Deandre Jordan getting game five NBA finals minutes and not looking terrible and not looking terrible who who had that on a big old car you know I thought Reggie Jackson playing some minutes a game three was crazy nope Deandre Jordan because of the foul trouble Nicole Yoke it's again I'm just I'm just so happy um and for the people that didn't enjoy the series to each his own but I have to remind you it's not always about the destination sometimes about the journey and I think this season alone was incredible we had some great stories we had some great moments we saw two people drop 70 points this year two we saw the Kings in their playoff drought we saw an eight seed take out a one seed we saw two two playing teams make it to the conference fight like this season was incredible and that's not even mentioning all the main moments the NBA twitter's going through just the funniest moments of the season it's not always about the destination sometimes it's about the journey and the journey was great and I would argue the destination was cool too because I enjoyed this series so oh man I was gonna say we might take a break but there's no break to be taken because the NBA uh draft is in 10 days so we back on to it and then we got some of the got to that yeah yeah yeah content is still flowing man leave a like subscribe if you're gonna be in Miami you got nothing to do on Thursday because ain't no game no more hit the link in the description ttwtour.com rcp free tour me and the guys live podcast tape podcast tape and it should be a blast man for real