Howard Beck

And you now have the looming dual threat of a Thunder team that is younger, deeper, and with all the options in the world because of all those picks to keep

upgrading the roster around Shea.

You have a Spurs team now that is younger and deeper and with a lot more options and tools to keep improving the roster around Wemby and Stephon Castle and crew.

Everybody in the West may be blocked for years to come.

And that includes Jokic, who being more mid-career,

The window is not going to stay open for very much longer, perhaps.

And so to me, I said most at stake for Jokic because I thought this might be his and the Nuggets' last best chance to add another title or make another run before the door just gets slammed shut by the Thunder and Spurs.

anything can happen, but like right now it's looking pretty bleak for them in the present.

And I think that, you know, the future is, it's tough, man.

Like, and especially when you consider that Aaron Gordon, this is the new normal.

Every year he's going to miss time with one hamstring or the other or both.

And he's been super important to them.

And you just had one of the most successful and healthy Jamal Murray seasons you're going to have.

So it's, this is, this is tough.

This is tough for the Nuggets.

And let me just throw, I was going to say, I have one quick thing.

I never like when we have these brawls or near brawls or anything that looks like it could explode into something serious.

And especially when it sometimes spills into the stands, the front row, whatever, and endangers fans.

If it's at least because your guy just got taken down out of midair and you're coming to his defense or you're pissed off because it was a dangerous play, a too hard of a foul, that kind of thing, that's one thing.

But for the stupid unwritten rules about scoring in a game that's already put away to Raj's point, that does not rise to the level that makes it worth it, if anything ever does, of endangering anybody.