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Not counting the not-so-secret tunnels inside of Crypto.com Arena, there were -- at most -- 100 feet between the cozy interview room in which Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was explaining how long it takes to to build a championship team Thursday night after his team took a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Los Angeles Lakers in their first-round playoff series, and the makeshift, cavernous room in which LA's LeBron James and Anthony Davis were trying to reckon with how quickly their championship hopes were fading.
"You need two or three years to learn how to play with each other," Jokic said, before launching into an abridged history of his time and all the teammates he's had in nine seasons with the Nuggets.