Jusuf Nurkic is a seven-foot Baltic riddle, a man capable of huge impact who often was not able to make that impact felt while wearing a Denver Nuggets uniform. The Bosnian Beast had some struggles with injuries and never could quite harness all of his talent, but the signs he showed here may still blossom into that terror he showed us glimpses of.
In January/February of 2015 - right before his knee injury and subsequent surgery to repair his patellar tendon - it seemed certain that he was destined to be the immovable menace in the middle of the lineup that Denver had been looking for.