Nuggets veteran Justin Holiday shared a powerful quote about how his team restored his belief in the NBA

The Nuggets are so special they’re literally getting guys believing in high-level basketball again.

Veteran Justin Holiday has played for 10 different teams in his extended NBA career, all with varying degrees of competence (and apathy). Seemingly, no one has ever made him believe in the league at its best quite like his current team, the reigning champion Denver Nuggets.

On Monday, as the white-hot Nuggets continued gearing up for a pivotal regular-season stretch run, Holiday was asked about Denver flipping its championship-caliber switch after this year’s All-Star break. He subsequently delivered a powerful speech about his tremendous respect for his teammates’ professional approach to the game and how it’s restored his belief in high-level NBA basketball once more.

It’s well worth a watch as it gives a fantastic insight into the mindset of the defending champions and how they can get everyone to buy into their culture:

 

Holiday would expand on his thought, noting how much he appreciates the trust that his Nuggets teammates like Nikola Jokić, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon, Michael Porter Jr., and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope have in one another and how that separates them from the pack: 

Man, what else can you say? That is special. As he said himself, Holiday’s been around the league long enough to understand how easy it is to check out on a lousy team that goes through the motions every night. The Nuggets don’t do that. The Nuggets play a selfless brand of basketball that is so engrossing in the pursuit of multiple championships together.

For what it’s worth, Holiday does previously have a ring with the 2015 Golden State Warriors, so he knows what a great NBA team looks like. Chances are, he might add more jewelry to his collection with the Nuggets this year.