Rob Mahoney

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682 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Aug

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The Zach Lowe Show · NBA News Roundup With Rob Mahoney, and James Surowiecki on the Lakers Sale! · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

I like I think he's gonna be quite good. matched

But even I have to admit a lot of that is based on a couple of months of actual basketball, just like has not had a tremendous opportunity to play meaningful high-level basketball, despite the circumstances and how competitive Denver has been. matched

If this was all about like, oh, we think Peyton Watson is an injury risk, oh, we think that maybe his development isn't gonna pan out, oh, we think defensively his reputation. matched

outpaces the reality of who he's been and who he can be, I would understand that. matched

If this felt like a team blanching at paying top dollar for Peyton Watson, that would be okay. matched

But it just feels like a team not wanting to pay, period, as the Nuggets are ought to do and as they have established a reputation of doing. matched

And I just, I feel like this conversation is only gonna get worse and worse because this is not just about the Nuggets and Nikola Jokic, although clearly critical characters involved matched

But as you might allude to in your other segment today, it's like matched

The baseline expectation that owning a sports team should mean that you pay for your competitive teams to continue to be competitive. matched

Might just be a thing of the past in the NBA. matched

Like maybe this is the apron environment is prohibitive enough, and the ownership situations around the league are unstable enough and really just interested in the equity of the franchise overall and the transactional nature of it rather than who actually competes. matched

I just feel like I'm I'm like watching the dying of the light here in a in a really dispiriting way. matched

Well, especially when we just saw what that lack of oomph can cost you against not not even teams like OKC and San Antonio, but against an opponent like the Minnesota Timberwolves in the playoffs. matched

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Really, this is not just hamstring Denver's ability to compete with the top, like the tip top of the Western Conference, but it's restricting their ability to compete with the Wolves, the Lakers, like the Rockets, these other teams that are going to be in the middle of the pack with them, vying for the same playoff spots, the same matchups. matched

It's just gonna get that much harder. matched

And the idea that you're rolling into a season in which you are supposed to be contending with a materially worse roster, unless that pick man matched

manifest into something pretty quickly over the course of this year. matched

And just hoping for the best, like that's not a solution. matched

And and all of this I I agree with you, there's some original sins here. matched

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