Adam Mares

But yes, the Nuggets, air quotes, just beat the Thunder, also air quotes, in the weirdest game.

We know how to pick them, man.

We picked the weirdest ones.

So if you don't know, the Nuggets, the first report came out yesterday.

If we walk it through, and the Thunder just announced they're not playing anybody.

They had no reason to play their guys for their own personal seeding.

But to sit as many guys as they did tonight, to me, it really did feel like at first, okay, they're punting the game.

They want to lose it, which would make sense because then Denver would be opposite of them in the bracket and maybe a little scared.

I think Denver had to have looked at this and said, okay, they don't want to win.

We kind of want to rest.

Let's just play our backups.

And Denver played the regular backups, but

The first question is, like, we're trying to figure out why.

This is the thing you said.

Everybody wants to know.

At the arena, same thing.

Everybody wants to know, why did Denver keep their entire starting five out?

My theory is, and we could put a couple of them out.

My theory is, they were like, the Thunder are going to do everything they can to avoid winning this game.

So we don't even need to try.