It’s been a busy month for the Denver Nuggets. Between the draft, Summer League and free agency the Nuggets took on the long-delayed work of removing roster dead weight and increasing the upside and long-term viability of the team. Hopefully Tim Connelly and Arturas Karnisovas have some vacation time saved up to use soon - they’ve earned a small break. So now that the team’s plan has come into focus (while acknowledging they may still not be done) let’s recap the different pieces of this offseason.
1) They swung hard at upside. With a lot of speculation out there that Denver would feel financially obligated to get out from under the financial weight of previous contracts and non-trades by dumping this year’s first rounder, the Nuggets instead took a chance on the biggest risk/reward player in the draft, Michael Porter Jr.