Comment on Cubs' Caratini, D-backs' Reed repeat on Prospect Team of the Week

It was our day, so they say. The media’s. Eighteen Nuggets players, one coach and one general manager were paraded out to a table Thursday at Ball Arena for the annual interview extravaganza to christen the new NBA season. Media day takes a little more than three hours. Too many words are uttered to count or transcribe every single one of them.

When Cale Makar danced through the Winnipeg Jets for one of the prettiest postseason goals in franchise history, he pointed to the moment during the sequence when he felt luck was involved. While Makar was en route to setting a franchise record for points by a defenseman and finishing third in the Norris Trophy voting, he repeatedly critiqued his performances.

Charlie Blackmon’s postgame dining habits shocked and awed Nolan Arenado. As a 22-year-old rookie, Arenado came walking into the training room when he spotted Blackmon, neck-deep in the cold tub, chowing down on his postgame meal. “Guys would be like, ‘That’s weird,'” Arenado recalled last week. “But that’s Charlie. He was a trip, man.” Arenado, the Cardinals’ star third baseman, was Blackmon’s Rockies teammate from 2013 to 2020.

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