Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor is joined by the former Denver general manager to reflect on his time with the team and why the three-time MVP makes people “take everything for granted”. Check out the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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You can get in the weeds and talk about different scenarios with the Nuggets, but I think it boils down to this.
The Nuggets experience to me is this, right?
When I really think about it, I think I saw Michael Porter Jr. talking about this the other day.
It’s the gift and the curse of Jokic, right?
Like, and I, I embrace that, but, like, when Jokic is in your universe, everybody takes everything else for granted, right?
“Oh, yeah, it’s just because they have Jokic,” but I actually think it’s the opposite.
When I look at the Chicago Bulls, the Spurs, the teams that won multiples, like, everybody does their job the best.
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Like, you could have argued in those sit- scenarios that best president, best coach, best star, best s- sixth role player, best sixth man, they, they had all that stuff covered, right?
So, I mean, but it’s just, it’s, it’s par for the course.