As Juancho Hernangomez approached the Nuggets’ locker room following Monday’s shootaround, a smile again crossed his face.
That might be surprising, given the second-year forward has not stepped on the floor in 16 of Denver’s past 19 games. But Hernangomez has many reasons to smile. For one, he gets to spend time with his brother, Willy, when the New York Knicks visit the Pepsi Center Thursday. And, after illness kept him sidelined for much of the season’s first half, Hernangomez finally feels healthy and believes the beginning of 2018 will be better than the end of 2017.