Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and Yahoo Sports fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus discuss the outlook for the Nuggets and if they’re still title contenders entering the upcoming season. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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I'm interested in your take on this one because I think maybe, and it's probably a call back to what I was saying earlier about fading Jamal Murray.

But I don't know, could there be something up in Denver now that, I don't know, we see this team start to kind of slide a little bit.

Yeah, that's the team that I picked, believe it.

And that was the Denver Nuggets.

Not because I don't believe in them as a franchise.

I'm just looking at sort of the natural erosion and by erosion.

I mean, this is just a function of the collective bargaining agreement where it becomes really hard for teams who have drafted well, or acquired players well, to have players on multiple players on max deals.

You got Yoko on the max and you've got Jamal Murray who you just signed to a max.

Remember a couple of years ago before the CB A came in and you were just sort of paying the levels of the luxury tax apron which were punitive but not as punitive as this.

They resigned, Michael Porter Junior who you would not necessarily call a max player that in turn has caused them to lose contagious Caldwell Pope and then Bruce Brown and Jeff Green, like you lose a little toughness and fabric of that.

On top of simply y'all, we can't say that we love NBA parody.

We can't sit up somewhere and say, man, we love the fact that we got six different champions in six different years.

That means teams ain't repeating, the.

Teams ain't even getting back to the finals.

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