Double Dribble Previews: Northwest Division

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Welcome to the Double Dribble podcast with Dubin and Akil on the RealGM Network. Make sure you rate, review, subscribe, love all our stuff, watch us on YouTube, watch it again, send it to your mother, send it to your sister, send it to everybody. Plain and simple.

That's Jared Dubin, author of Last Night in Basketball. Make sure you check out his newsletter. It is going to be awesome. It is always awesome. As the season gets going, he ramps up quite a bit and we get a lot of good shit. From all that stuff, I'm Mo DeKeele, former NBA video coordinator, right for Bleacher Report. I do a bunch of other stuff. Don't worry about it.

Jared, how are you doing today?

Jared Dubin (1:47)

I'm doing great, man. I'm ready to talk about the old Northwest Division today.

Mo Dakhil (1:51)

Yes, we're going to continue with our season. If I felt a little bit off in the beginning of this, it's because it is so effing humid. Over here in LA right now, it's disgusting.

I'm thrown off by the weather. What happened to my beautiful city, Jared?

Jared Dubin (2:09)

Were you baking outside this weekend at the USC game?

Mo Dakhil (2:13)

The USC game was nice. It was first off, our game was Friday at 6 p.m. We'll talk about that later.

Jared Dubin (2:19)

I forgot we played at the same time.

Mo Dakhil (2:21)

Yeah, so we can discuss as we get to the end of the podcast and talk our college football stuff. But we are at the season preview. We are NBA, guys.

Let's go into it. Northwest Division. Folks, Jared does all the homework here.

And I mean that literally. He's the best. So he laid out a bunch of questions. We did this last year. We've done it for the past few previews. We're going to continue on with it now. Jared, start us out alphabetical order. Let's hit us with the questions.

Jared Dubin (2:48)

We are going to start with the Denver Nuggets. We're going to talk about one thing we're excited about for their season or looking forward to. One thing we're worried about, concerned about, whatever it is. We're going to make one prediction for their season. It can be an over-under. It can be what the final result of their season is going to be. It could be something completely random. Any prediction about their season that you want to make. And we start off with each team's significant moves during the off season. The Nuggets waved and stretched. Jonas Valanchunas, re-signed Tyus Jones, signed Marvin Bagley, Alpha Diallo, Lonnie Walker IV.

Matt Spencer-Jones, Oper-Shate, traded Peyton Watson for 1st and 2nd, and signed Demar DeRozan. Their over-under is 48.5 wins.

Mo, I have a feeling we're going to be excited about the same thing for the Nuggets. So if you do mention the same thing that I'm excited about, I have a backup one. What are you excited about for the Nuggets for this year?

Mo Dakhil (3:40)

It's Jokic. It's always Jokic.

That's the thing to be excited about with the Denver Nuggets. It's having Jokic. Look, we know he's going to be a free agent at the end of this year. He's already said, I'm going to retire a Nugget. I'm going to sign long term. It just makes more sense financially to do so. And I actually take him at his word. Other guys, I'm like, I don't know. But when there's stuff like, you know, could Jokic actually leave and things like that? And where would be the best landing spot for Jokic and all that fun stuff? But he's going to be a Nugget. And the reason why is, he's freaking phenomenal. He is so fun to watch when he gets going. You know, the start of the season last year, he looked like the MVP. Then that wrist injury came and he just...