One of the key moves, or non-moves, for the Denver Nuggets this past offseason was to not sign a traditional backup center to fill the void JaVale McGee and Paul Millsap left.
The league’s Most Valuable Player, Nikola Jokic, will be playing most of the team’s minutes at backup center and unlike past seasons, it doesn’t look like the front office was worried about finding the main backup.
There’s no Mason Plumlee or Isaiah Hartenstein to start the season behind Jokic. It’s probably the right choice considering that after trading for JaVale, he racked up numerous DNPs and only averaged 13.