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For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride dives into the Nuggets 103-88 victory over the Utah Jazz and all of the storylines surrounding the win.

The topics of the new Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast includes Nikola Jokic’s unique style of greatness, the reason Denver's defense may actually be sustainable, the Nuggets' bench unit and their fourth-quarter dominance, who should start at small forward, and the holes in Jamal Murray's game.

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For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride dives into a plethora of different topics starting with the Nuggets win over the Golden State Warriors and finishing with the Nuggets obliteration of the Sacramento Kings

The topics of the new Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast includes the Nuggets not being scared of any team in the NBA; including the Warriors, Will Barton's injury update, Nikola Jokic winning Player of the Week, and Denver's 126-112 win over the Kings.

For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride dives into the Nuggets 119-91 victory over the Phoenix Suns and all of the storylines surrounding the victory.

The topics of the new Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast includes Nikola Jokic's historically brilliant performance, an update for Will Barton's injury, Denver's starting unit and their dominance, the Nuggets surprisingly stingy defense, and Jamal Murray's quietly awesome game.

For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride dives into all of the semantics surrounding Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone getting a two-year contract extension that allows him to avoid coaching in the last year of his ear and also continue coaching Denver into the 2020-21 season.

This episode covers why Malone deserves his extension, how much he has improved the Nuggets organization as a whole, the improvement of Denver's young core, as well as why it was a two-year extension that Malone was awarded.

For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride recaps the Denver Nuggets' fifth preseason game of the 2018-19 season against the Chicago Bulls. Denver escaped with a 98-93 for the Nuggets fourth win in their five preseason games.

The Nuggets treated their final preseason game like a dress rehearsal. For the first three quarters of action, it was all about the starting unit. They played with a tenacity on defense that had not been seen from them in quite some time and they did enough on offense to give their bench unit a strong lead to work with. 

Unfortunately, the bench unit was not as dominant as they have been throughout preseason, but they did just enough to squeak out a win over the Bulls. 

The Nuggets preseason is now officially over and they will now head to Los Angeles to take on the Clippers on the night of October 17th.

For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride recaps the Nuggets fourth preseason game of the 2018-19 season against the Los Angeles Clippers, who defeated Denver 109-103 for the Nuggets first loss of the preseason.

While the Nuggets’ starters played in only the first quarter, there were still some interesting takeaways about Denver's starting unit. On the other hand, the bench unit — led by Monte Morris and Trey Lyles — continued to have a great preseason even if they did lose to the Clippers.

The Nuggets are now 3-1 in preseason and will head back to Chicago to take on the Bulls on Friday night.

In the return of the Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride recaps the Nuggets third preseason game against the Perth Wildcats of the Australian National Basketball League. 

While the Nuggets' starters struggled mightily and played without intensity or aggression, the bench unit -- led by Monte Morris -- came up big to save the day for Denver. 

The Nuggets are now 3-0 in preseason and will head back to Los Angeles to take on the Clippers on Tuesday night.

The Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast finally returns after technical difficulty to review the Denver Nuggets trade deadline acquisition, Devin Harris. 

Harris was acquired in a three-team trade with the Dallas Mavericks and New York Knicks in a deal that shipped disgruntled point guard Emmanuel Mudiay to the Knicks and netted Denver Harris. 

Denver desperately needed a veteran backup point guard and Harris did everything he could to fill the role admirably. This podcast discusses the good and bad of both his defensive and offensive game while also taking a deep look into the impending start of free agency as well as how Harris was able to fit throughout the year.

In the newest edition of the Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride dives into the outcome of the 2018 NBA Draft Lottery where history chose to repeat itself as Denver failed to move up once again.

The Nuggets will now prepare for the 2018 NBA Draft with the 14th pick as ammunition. The real question is not who Denver drafts at 14, but if they even draft there at all. With a very tight cap sheet, few additional roster spots, and the 14th pick in what is considered to be a 13 player draft, Tim Connelly and his staff will have to get creative with how they use their pick.

Denver could trade back, trade up, pick at 14, or just trade the pick entirely to move off of one of Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, or Wilson Chandler's contracts. With so many options on the table, this Denver Nuggets Daily podcast is dedicated to outlining each potential situation.

The Denver Nuggets Daily podcast returns with T.J. McBride starting the end-of-season evaluations for each player on the roster. The first player up is Nuggets' starting point guard, Jamal Murray.

Murray took a massive leap forward as an offensive player and NBA contributor. He is becoming a lethal shooter, improved on his handles, and looked significantly more explosive. He has the makings of an ideal offensive running partner with Nikola Jokic and all of the skills to be one of the best bucket-getters in the NBA in time.

While his offensive game was terrific all season, his issues mainly lie on the defensive end of the floor. Murray struggled in every facet of defense and has a long ways to go before becoming serviceable on that end of the floor.