First of all, Happy Birthday, Aaron Gordon! Gordon turns 26 today. He’s younger than Nikola Jokiu0107.
With Gordon and the Denver Nuggets agreeing to a four-year contract extension, the gauntlet has been thrown by the Nuggets. A declaration if you will:
This team is good enough to win an NBA championship during the next two seasons and beyond.
It’s a bold proclamation to make, but when you pay a solid starter who doesn’t profile as an All-Star player $20 million or more annually, it better be for a good reason. The lasting image that Nuggets fans have of Gordon in the playoffs is scoring six, four, and eight points in Games 2, 3, and 4 of the Western Conference semi-final beating that took place at the hands of the Phoenix Suns.