Welcome to Lotton Nuggets.

Welcome to Lotton Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Lockdown Network.

I'm Matt Moore, Senior NBA Writer for the Action Network, and 1043 of the fans Insider in Denver for the Nuggets.

Nuggets Insider, not just like a general insider.

On today's show, we will recap another great win by the Denver Nuggets. Nuggets Insider. Not just like a general insider. On today's show, we will recap another great win by the Denver Nuggets over the Phoenix Suns

as Jamal Murray has returned and is kicking all sorts of ass.

First, in the first two segments, though, we're going to talk about the trade deadline

and a number of things to discuss with what the Nuggets did with some perspective, some distance from the trade deadline to get a sense for

what happened, how it impacts them going forward, as well as a look around the Western

Conference and what the moves that were made or not made mean for the future. I covered a lot of

this on the post-game show, post-trade show, last week, but I wanted to kind of rustle back up on it

because it is so important and so many people wanted to talk about it.

So let's get started with some thoughts on the trade deadline before we get to another win

over the Sons.

So when we talk about the trade deadline, I got a lot of questions about from on the radio on 104.3.

I got a lot of questions about why didn't they do more?

What didn't they do?

Is this all they got for these guys?

There was predictably some negative reaction because this is what I think fans wanted to see.

They wanted to see Nuggets trade, Malik Beasley,

Wancho Hernan Gomez,

and a first-round pick for Drew Holiday,

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