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Post by famicommander on Jul 25, 2024 22:58:42 GMT -5
Jay Huff got a two-way deal with the Grizzlies. This will be his fourth and final two-way contract.
Justin Holiday and Braxton Key are the last two guys from our squad last year without a team at the moment. Caldwell-Pope is in Orlando, Jackson is in Philadelphia, Gillespie is in Phoenix, and we retained everyone else.
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Post by somborshuffle on Jul 25, 2024 23:15:07 GMT -5
Ughhhh... I'd take Holiday over Zeke in a heartbeat. And he'd come about about 6m cheaper.
The Zeke contract and Reggie player option might cost this team another championship. Crazy when you think about it.
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Post by famicommander on Jul 26, 2024 0:34:26 GMT -5
Attaching 3 picks to dump an expiring contract is still baffling to me. Yes, the player option was a bad idea, but we drastically overpaid to rectify that mistake. Should've dumped Pickett and Tyson instead and kept Reggie and Holiday as your emergency guards.
Nnaji is a whole different problem that is harder to rectify.
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Post by gordy on Jul 26, 2024 1:05:39 GMT -5
Like I've said all offseason long...it would be very cool if Jamal Murray took his body and conditioning as serious as NBA players need to. But whatever...people will make excuses for him and say his injuries are just bad luck and Malone over-playing him. Crazy considering Jokic plays more minutes, more games and has a heavier work load and is healthy mostly at a much bigger size. Very strange. But Joker can play “slow”, or so I’ve been told. Jamal (along with almost every other NBA player) can’t pull that off regularly.
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Post by duh88 on Jul 26, 2024 4:34:20 GMT -5
Told my wife that people on the board want to trade Murray. My wife's reply was beautiful as she said:
"I've seen a lot of men wear that Nuggets uniform over my life. I haven't seen very many who brought home a championship in that uni."
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Post by nuggetshipster on Jul 26, 2024 5:32:14 GMT -5
Attaching 3 picks to dump an expiring contract is still baffling to me. Yes, the player option was a bad idea, but we drastically overpaid to rectify that mistake. Should've dumped Pickett and Tyson instead and kept Reggie and Holiday as your emergency guards. Nnaji is a whole different problem that is harder to rectify. Reggie and Holiday sounds more expensive then Pickett and Tyson. Been saying this loud since Booth got the job. His first priority is cutting costs while remaining somewhat championship relevant
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Post by nuggetshipster on Jul 26, 2024 5:33:51 GMT -5
Told my wife that people on the board want to trade Murray. My wife's reply was beautiful as she said: "I've seen a lot of men wear that Nuggets uniform over my life. I haven't seen very many who brought home a championship in that uni." Lets not pretend Murray havent played along side a top10 all time player. In his peak. And have only won one ring.
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Post by scooter on Jul 26, 2024 11:24:31 GMT -5
Attaching 3 picks to dump an expiring contract is still baffling to me. Yes, the player option was a bad idea, but we drastically overpaid to rectify that mistake. Should've dumped Pickett and Tyson instead and kept Reggie and Holiday as your emergency guards. You can write “attaching 3 picks” as often as you want and it doesn’t change the fact that worthless is worthless and it doesn’t much matter whether it’s 3 worthless picks or 100 worthless picks. It’s just moving the player off the roster spot and getting his contract off the cap sheet. Teams can buy those picks for a little cash. And some of the players who are still “on the board” in the 50’s have their agents tell teams not to draft them so they can sign on to a team they like as an undrafted free agent. Nuggets’ fans don’t have to like it but because the team is deep into the lux tax there is tax money tacked on in multiples of the “over the tax money”. So Jackson’s contract for next season would have cost the team somewhere in the $10-20 mil range in actual cash, which is a lot of money to spend for an end of the bench guy. In addition, there has been chatter that Jackson didn’t care about winning as much as Jokic wanted from his teammates. It’s only been a few weeks since the new NBA year officially started so we don’t know what will be with a couple of deep bench spots. Things may still change.
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Post by famicommander on Jul 26, 2024 12:18:28 GMT -5
I don't believe for a second that Jackson didn't care about winning. The guy's body was a total wreck last year and he played every single game including the playoffs despite being older than dirt.
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Post by BBBbbb on Jul 26, 2024 13:09:14 GMT -5
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Post by GBG on Jul 26, 2024 13:28:55 GMT -5
I like player options. It gives incentives to a player to give his all and have a surprisingly good season to get a bag the next year. A motivated Westbrook for one season is better than a Westbrook going through motions in the two final years of his career.
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Post by JB on Jul 26, 2024 13:31:27 GMT -5
I like player options when the player isn't completely washed.
excited for the Russ era. unlike Reggie, he some gas left in the tank.
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Post by rock on Jul 26, 2024 13:40:45 GMT -5
You’ve got to be kidding me I think we are the only team that gives our player options. They’ve burned us 10 times in a row and we still give them out
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Post by LotharBraunBrownBryant on Jul 26, 2024 13:49:42 GMT -5
quite a few teams give out the 1+1 player option. We have seen clearly that it's bad when it's more than the minimum (see: Reggie) -- but I've never heard of a team being screwed because of a minimum player. You can just waive a minimum player if you want the roster spot back.
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Post by Dante on Jul 26, 2024 13:52:08 GMT -5
I like player options when the player isn't completely washed. excited for the Russ era. unlike Reggie, he some gas left in the tank.
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Post by JB on Jul 26, 2024 13:54:23 GMT -5
funny meme but Russ was an effective player for the Clippers before they traded for Harden.
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Post by Dante on Jul 26, 2024 13:56:13 GMT -5
So...there goes even the slim chance of cutting Russ if (when) he is more trouble and negative product on the court and eventually picking up (targeting) Brogdon at trade deadline as a guy who will 1000% be bought out. Nuggets front office ladies and gentleman...
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Post by Dante on Jul 26, 2024 14:03:21 GMT -5
funny meme but Russ was an effective player for the Clippers before they traded for Harden. Melo was 25 ppg scorer for the Knicks before he joined OKC...OKC destroyed him right? Russ last decent stint was 2 years ago against PHX in the 1st round when both PG13 and Kawhi was hurt and he was one man show (OKC Russ). Evidence of Russ being effective in the role he would be asked to play here (Reggie/Bruce role) is non existent. And his last playoff showing vs Mavs was so bad even the Clippers did not wanted him back on that vet deal. Never liked him as a basketball player, he only knows how to play with 100% reckless abandon 24/7 and that's it. You are not going to change him here. Will do my best to root for the guy because he is a Nugget now, but once again, player option and no alternative option in case he fails (buyout market Malcom Brogdon). To much gamble with prime Jokic.
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Post by scooter on Jul 26, 2024 14:03:29 GMT -5
So...there goes even the slim chance of cutting Russ if (when) he is more trouble and negative product on the court and eventually picking up (targeting) Brogdon at trade deadline as a guy who will 1000% be bought out. Nuggets front office ladies and gentleman... Brogdon can’t play alongside Murray and will be wanting more than a 15 minute/game role and will prefer a team that may want him next season at something in the MLE range. “Targeting” a guy doesn’t mean he’ll think the Nuggets are a good opportunity.
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Post by famicommander on Jul 26, 2024 14:08:55 GMT -5
A two year deal for a guy turning 36 this year is dumb.
And yes, we can technically waive him next year. But we're obviously not gonna.
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