Everything you need to know about Kenneth Faried as a basketball player and what he brought to the Denver Nuggets can be visually summarized by his very first points he scored in the NBA:
The end of Faried’s tenure as a Denver Nugget, however, couldn’t be any more different.
A key member of the starting rotation since his rookie year, Faried was largely reduced to a bench role the past two seasons. In 2017-18, even after starter Paul Millsap became injured and missed over half of the season, Faried still only played in 32 games - mostly accruing garbage time minutes.