How the Denver Nuggets Won the NBA Trade Deadline

You read that title right; the Denver Nuggets won the trade deadline. You can argue other teams did better as they helped in their pushes for championships, but Denver in fact won.

With all the talk of huge trades going down over the last month, the deadline ended up being a little bit bland with only “minor” deals getting done. Everybody was waiting for the blockbuster deal that never came.

Let’s start by looking at the deal the Nuggets were a part of:

Deal Done

The team completed a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder around 1 p.m. The deal saw the following:

Denver receives:

point guard DJ Augustin

forward Steve Novak (To be bought out)

two second-round picks in 2016

Denver loses:

shooting guard…