More than an hour after the final buzzer, Zeke Nnaji still had Kool & The Gang queued up. When he’s in charge of the workout playlist, buckle up. A skilled pianist and high school marching band alum, he’ll jump between genres as much as anyone on the Nuggets’ roster.
“I just put on some 70s, 80s funk kind of music. They didn’t like it,” Nnaji said Tuesday as two-way player PJ Hall shook his head disapprovingly from across the locker room. “But sometimes I’ll play some Biggie and Tupac, or older rap. Or sometimes I’ll play some, like, Billy Joel-type older pop songs.