CSG Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 945
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
CSG #567: How our MVP destroyed our appreciation of typical NBA players
Has Nikola Jokic kind of ruined our ability to appreciate "typical" NBA players? On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how Jokic is a one-off and we should appreciate him as such, but not let it af…
CSG #566: I have Covid, so why not podcast about the Nuggets
Yeah. Covid got me so you might as well listen to my sultry voice while I talk about some takeaways from the first 10 games of this Nuggets season.
Apologies for the brevity of this episode. Back to n…
CSG #565: Kyrie, social media and accountability
Is there a way to hold Kyrie Irving accountable for giving support to antisemitic conspiracy on Twitter? On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about how players control over their media access has hinde…
CSG #564: We need to re-balance our view of Michael Porter Jr
Why do we cover Michael Porter Jr. the way we do? Why do we collectively shrug while witnessing someone who has come back from a third back procedure. On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about how we …
Hopium or Copium with The Bulwark's Tim Miller
Tim Miller of The Bulwark and author of Why We Did It returns to CSG to preview the Denver Nuggets upcoming season and play Hopium or Copium. Are we being too optimistic or are we not being optimisti…
The Season of No Excuses: Michael Porter Jr.
Next up in the Season of No Excuses, Michael Porter Jr. How can Mike, AND Jokic/Malone work to get him incorporated into Jokic-ball while letting him cook? It can be done and Jeff explains how. Shout…
The Season of No Excuses: Nikola Jokic
Episode 2 in "The Season of No Excuses" series is the two time MVP Nikola Jokic. What small area can Jokic improve? Jeff talks about his basketball relationship with MPJ and how (on Jokic's end) he c…
The Season of No Excuses: Michael Malone
In the first of a four part mini-series on the Denver Nuggets heading into the 2022-23 season, Jeff talks about the Season of No Excuses. First up, Michael Malone who must go from the great culture s…
CSG #563: Repeated incidence of Homophobia has made covering the NBA less fun
The Anthony Edwards incident of homophobic comments toward gay men minding their own business in Atlanta is yet another in a series of homophobic comments in the league that dates back decades. On th…
CSG #562: My thoughts on Eurobasket, Murray workouts and NBA Mideason Tournament
On the latest Mortcast on CSG Jeff tells the listeners why he doesn't cover Eurobasket. Simply put, he would be bad at it. Also Jeff goes over Jamal Murray Working out with Nuggets players in Denver …
That time Tim Donaghy emailed me out of nowhere
Happy Labor Day. In reference to the new Netflix Documentary series episode Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul about Tim Donaghy, Jeff decided to talk about when Donaghy emailed him out of nowhere in 20…
CSG #561: How the Nuggets can optimize the Jokic/Porter relationship
On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about the Nikola Jokic and Michael Porter Jr dynamic and how the team can actually optimize them this year.
CSG #560: The evlolution of the small forward in the NBA since the 80's
In his last of the August "Evolution" series, Jeff talks about how the small forward "peak" essentially ended in the 1980s with a brief resurgence in the 00's. What happened to the position and will …
CSG #559: The death and (hopeful) ressurection of the sweet footed center
The rise and fall of the sweet footed big man. Is it because they became harder to find, or is it because the NBA changed rules in the early 00's. On the latest Mortcast Jeff talks about how it's a c…
CSG #558: The death of the "chucker"
In the first in a series on contrasting the old with the new, Jeff talks about why we no longer call guy's "chuckers" in the NBA (in the derogatory sense) and what the definition was before the moder…
CSG #557: Rest in Power to the late Bill Russell
The Legend Bill Russell passed away today at the age of 88. On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about Russell's multifaceted legacy, from being the greatest winner in professional sports history to be…
CSG #556: Goran Dragic has a point about Jokic and Doncic, but not in the way you think
Goran Dragic, newly of the Chicago Bulls, gave an interview this week where he spoke about how American NBA players perceive Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic. On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about why…
Nick Kosmider on the ever changing Nuggets and Broncos
Nick Kosmider, the Broncos beat reporter from The Athletic joins Jeff to talk about his perception of the Nuggets offseason (his former beat) and also Broncos ownership, quarterback, and coaching. Fu…
CSG #555: Nuggets trade Barton and Morris for KCP
Jeff gives his thoughts on the Nuggets trading Will Barton and Monte Morris for Kantavious Caldwell-Pope and Ish Smith from the Washington Wizards.
CSG #554: The dump, the project and the exception
On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about the Denver Nuggets 2022 Draft and how perplexing their use of the JMyke trade to get a guaranteed contract for a project player was.
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