Like a good ranch dip, Christian Braun goes with anything. And anyone.
He runs through screens the way the Kool-Aid Man used to run through walls. He cuts to the rim like a Ginsu knife through a block of frozen spinach. He finishes Russell Westbrook pitches with grace and Nikola Jokic lobs with rage.
When Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth says he has seven starters, that includes Braun, who’s done everything asked — and more — to fill Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s Nikes.
“If everyone’s healthy,” I asked Braun last week, waving at the empty locker stalls of Aaron Gordon and Westbrook, “do you care whether or not you start?