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The oldest and most trusted Denver Nuggets based podcast since its founding in 2011. Your host Jeff Morton brings his innate knowledge of Nuggets history to talk about the modern team. Expect great guests and much more each week.

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Wednesday · 19 min
CSG #966: Shortcast - The Nuggets want to win 54 games again
On today's Shortcast Jeff talks about how the moves the Nuggets have made this offseason seem to signal Josh Kroenke's assertion that the Nuggets want to "win lots of games" is the actual playbook. They might not contend but they will win 54 games again. Is that enough for what might be a turbulent season?
August 23 · 33 min
CSG #965: The CBA and it's tax issue and how the Nuggets have poorly handled it
On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how the NBA CBA actualy does NOT disincentivize teams going in to the tax ... it just wants them to do it for 3 years. Also how the NBA CBA was meant to expand team valuations on the backs of the players. Then Jeff talks about how the Nuggets have poorly handled the new NBA realities by being too loyal and ostensibly playing favorites.
August 21 · 17 min
Reacting to the Nuggets signing DeMar DeRozan
Another Shortcast where Jeff reacts to the Nuggets signing of DeMar DeRozan. What it means for the team. Is he a Watson replacement? Is his role simply to be off the bench? Jeff dives into it.
August 20 · 13 min
EMERGENCY MORTCAST: Nuggets sign and trade Peyton Watson to the Cavaliers for ... picks
EMERGENCY MORTCAST: Jeff talks about the Nuggets not maximizing their assets and getting a whole lotta nothing for Peyton Watson in a sign and trade with the Cavs.
August 19 · 28 min
CSG #964: The NBA has a team valuation problem because it's chasing that big dollar
On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how the NBA chasing that big dollar with NBA team valuations and more (plus an incoherent CBA designed entirely to help inflate valuations) leads to the issues it's having right now. How the Lakers, Blazers, Suns and Clippers are an example of the NBA's chase of the dollar needing to be reigned in.
August 16 · 29 min
CSG #963: On building big projects in Denver and it's big challenges
On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about the dueling projects that KSE and the Walton/Penner group have right now and how it's complicated by how difficult it is to build a major project in a city like Denver.
August 13 · 16 min
CSG #962: Shortcast - Nuggets schedule release first reaction
On this instant reaction Shortcast on CSG Jeff talks about his reaction to the Denver Nuggets schedule release. What are the differences from last year and what are the downsides. Jeff talks about two monster stretches (both good and bad) in the year and more.
August 12 · 27 min
CSG #961: Nuggets schedule, re-heated nachos offseason and the NBA has an ownership problem
On the latest Mortcast on CSG and MHS Jeff talks about the Nuggets re-heated nachos offseason. What that means going forward. Also he talks about the games released on the schedule so far and if that means the bloom is off the rose. Lastly Jeff talks about the Lakers shocking sale ... again ... and the NBA's inflated team valuation problem and the money being introduced to the league.
August 8 · 18 min
CSG #960: Shortcast - Proposing a Watson contract compromise that might work
On the latest Shortcast, Jeff proposes the Nuggets doing a 2+1 contract for Watson to cool the inflamed atmosphere right now in negotiations. Not a win-win but close.
August 6 · 52 min
CSG #959: Thoughts on Lonnie Walker signing and Nate Lundy reports from Broncos training camp
(Recorded before it was revealed Lonnie Walker signed a training camp deal). Jeff talks about the Lonnie Walkers signing and how Walker is a B- version of Tim Hardaway Jr. The rest of the podcast is devoted to my guest Nate Lundy reporting from Broncos training camp about Bo Nix, Jalen Waddle and the Broncos defense.
August 4 · 16 min
CSG #958: Shortcast - On Nikola Jokic and the option year
On the latest shortcast, Jeff talks about Brian Windhorst mentioning Nikola Jokic's option year. Jeff asks why we haven't talked about it more and if maybe the Year 38 rule in the NBA has anything to do with extending off the option.
July 31 · 29 min
CSG #957: On the fiasco unfolding in Portland and the Nuggets very minor practice facility improvment
On the latest Mortcast on CSG and MHS Jeff goes over the fiasco unfolding in Portland right now with the Blazers and why everyone needs to pay attention to what is going on there. Also the Nuggets apparently are looking to install an observation deck on their practice court. Jeff talks about how that's like putting lipstick on a pig.
July 28 · 29 min
CSG #956: Nuggets squeezing Watson, Jones matched and Dave Joerger signed as assistant
On a jam packed Mortcast Jeff talks about the Nuggets matching Spencer Jones. The team putting an epic squeeze on Peyton Watson and finally Josh Kroenke loves the Grit and Grind Grizzlies.
July 24 · 18 min
CSG #955: Shortcast - Welcome to the season of annoying Jokic discourse
In today's Shortcast Jeff talks about the upcoming season and how Jokic's decision to wait until he has to make a decision on his option to accept a new contract from the Nuggets, as much as we trust him, will create just the most irritating Nuggets discourse we have seen in a long, long time.
July 21 · 28 min
CSG #954: The Nuggets are facing down a financial reckoning
The Nuggets are like the rest of the NBA in that they are facing a financial recoking they don't really want to deal with. On the latest Mortcast on CSG and MHS Jeff talks about that reckoning and how contracts in the NBA are no longer viewed in basketball terms ... just financial.
July 16 · 18 min
CSG #953: Shortcast - The NBA needs to do away with Restricted Free Agency
In this Shortcast, Jeff talks about how Restricted Free Agency is a relic of the late 90's Lockout and how the NBA using a fake hard cap and the guardrails of restricted free agency is fundamentally unfair.
July 14 · 28 min
CSG #952: The Nuggets weird offseason and how there's no easy way out of it
The Nuggets signed Alpha Diallo this weekend to a very small one year contract. Outside of that the team is stuck in one place ... trying to navigate a real belief that things will be better if everyone wasn't injured with the reality that keeping this roster together would result in the largest tax bill in NBA history.
July 9 · 28 min
CSG #951: Nuggets are frozen, waiting for Watson and lacking ambition
On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how the Nuggets cap situation, their lack of movement in free agency despite having only 10 players under contract and the haggling with Peyton Watson has left them frozen. A lack of ambition and willingness to take any risk has frozen them in a weird and cap strapped place.
July 6 · 28 min
CSG #950: On Peyton Watson, contracts and the Nuggets sending signals they aren't cheap
On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about Peyton Watson's contract as opposed to Christian Braun's. The decision that was made and how just because you want something doesn't mean you'll get it. In the second half Jeff discusses the LeBron stuff and how the Nuggets really don't want the league to think they're cheap
July 3 · 19 min
CSG #949: Shortcast - Nuggets sign Bagley and Jones and wait for Watson and LeBron
It's time for another Shortcast! Jeff talks about the Nuggets signings of Marvin Bagley and Tyus Jones while they wait for Peyton Watson and (faint FAINT possibility LeBron). What this means going forward. Jeff ends this shortcast with a rant about how unethical restricted free agency is when the NBA is operating with a fake cap.

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