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A farewell to The Manimal

Denver has agreed to send Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a 2019 protected first-round pick and a future second round pick to Nets for Isaiah Whitehead, league sources tell ESPN. Salary dump for Denver.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 13, 2018

I saw this tweet pop up on my phone yesterday just before going to bed. To my surprise I was filled with mixed emotions, and I had to stop and take in the magnitude of what just took place.

It needed to happen.

We’ve been saying for some time now that the Nuggets’ bench was far too crowded at the forward position, and that they needed to offload weight anywhere they possibly could.