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Sam Amick

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

And he even said to reporters, you know, I'm going to spend a couple of days not thinking about basketball. And his hope at that time was to go on a two day vacation of sorts and to finally get his energy back. But when he got to the end of that little stretch of time and still wasn't feeling like himself, then the alarm bells were going off.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

even more than before they began the testing process and thankfully found something that if not detected could have certainly been a lot worse i would never pretend to be a doctor on this show or any other but you know it's not a real complicated problem you're talking about a blood clot

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

even more than before they began the testing process and thankfully found something that if not detected could have certainly been a lot worse i would never pretend to be a doctor on this show or any other but you know it's not a real complicated problem you're talking about a blood clot

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

even more than before they began the testing process and thankfully found something that if not detected could have certainly been a lot worse i would never pretend to be a doctor on this show or any other but you know it's not a real complicated problem you're talking about a blood clot

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

that if it were to continue growing or being in his system, it could break free, and the life-threatening part potentially is that it can go within his system down to his lungs, and at that point, it could be an embolism, and that would be the absolute worst-case scenario. So glad they found it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

that if it were to continue growing or being in his system, it could break free, and the life-threatening part potentially is that it can go within his system down to his lungs, and at that point, it could be an embolism, and that would be the absolute worst-case scenario. So glad they found it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

that if it were to continue growing or being in his system, it could break free, and the life-threatening part potentially is that it can go within his system down to his lungs, and at that point, it could be an embolism, and that would be the absolute worst-case scenario. So glad they found it.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

The Spurs are signaling optimism as it relates to him being ready at the start of next year, and they do feel like they avoided something that could have been a lot more serious.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

The Spurs are signaling optimism as it relates to him being ready at the start of next year, and they do feel like they avoided something that could have been a lot more serious.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

The Spurs are signaling optimism as it relates to him being ready at the start of next year, and they do feel like they avoided something that could have been a lot more serious.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Yeah, it was kind of wild in terms of just our jobs and how, you know, you're to a certain extent, you're a prisoner of kind of where your head is at when certain news happens. And so I'm literally sitting on my couch, had just finished the sixth and final episode of Court of Gold, the Netflix doc that chronicled not just Team USA, but all the teams.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Yeah, it was kind of wild in terms of just our jobs and how, you know, you're to a certain extent, you're a prisoner of kind of where your head is at when certain news happens. And so I'm literally sitting on my couch, had just finished the sixth and final episode of Court of Gold, the Netflix doc that chronicled not just Team USA, but all the teams.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Yeah, it was kind of wild in terms of just our jobs and how, you know, you're to a certain extent, you're a prisoner of kind of where your head is at when certain news happens. And so I'm literally sitting on my couch, had just finished the sixth and final episode of Court of Gold, the Netflix doc that chronicled not just Team USA, but all the teams.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

And I mean, probably four or five minutes after the end of the documentary, which I absolutely loved and which I need to highlight the Six episodes finishes with Victor Wimbanyama as the focal point, as the dramatic mic drop where Team USA wins gold. They have footage of Victor behind the scenes with tears welling in his eyes, getting spoken to by Boris Diaw, the French team GM.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

And I mean, probably four or five minutes after the end of the documentary, which I absolutely loved and which I need to highlight the Six episodes finishes with Victor Wimbanyama as the focal point, as the dramatic mic drop where Team USA wins gold. They have footage of Victor behind the scenes with tears welling in his eyes, getting spoken to by Boris Diaw, the French team GM.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

And I mean, probably four or five minutes after the end of the documentary, which I absolutely loved and which I need to highlight the Six episodes finishes with Victor Wimbanyama as the focal point, as the dramatic mic drop where Team USA wins gold. They have footage of Victor behind the scenes with tears welling in his eyes, getting spoken to by Boris Diaw, the French team GM.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Everybody's trying to lift Vic up because he's devastated that they lost to the Americans in the gold medal game. And it was such great insight. to the competitor that he is, to the care factor that he has. And then he then, they cut to the scene where Vic is talking to the media after the gold medal game loss. And he says, I'm learning and I'm afraid for everybody else.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Everybody's trying to lift Vic up because he's devastated that they lost to the Americans in the gold medal game. And it was such great insight. to the competitor that he is, to the care factor that he has. And then he then, they cut to the scene where Vic is talking to the media after the gold medal game loss. And he says, I'm learning and I'm afraid for everybody else.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

Everybody's trying to lift Vic up because he's devastated that they lost to the Americans in the gold medal game. And it was such great insight. to the competitor that he is, to the care factor that he has. And then he then, they cut to the scene where Vic is talking to the media after the gold medal game loss. And he says, I'm learning and I'm afraid for everybody else.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Wemby out for the season | Nuggets take 2 seed in the West

And they said, well, who are you talking about? The NBA or the rest of the world? And he said, everybody. You know, and so it was like this dramatic, like, damn, like this guy is coming next. So, man, like from a mental standpoint for me to be watching that and just going, oh, that was some good storytelling. That was a fantastic doc.