The Nuggets have a bucket list of items they’d like to check off today. Moving Emmanuel Mudiay, Wilson Chandler and Kenneth Faried among them. Moves not necessarily designed to improve the on-court product but to ease salary and rotation concerns (finding a spot for Torrey Craig for example.).
The Nuggets, buyers last year to hit the salary floor are suddenly facing cap concerns as there is expected to be a cap crunch next year. They have a team option for Nikola Jokic for the ’18-19 season but conventional wisdom says they should get him locked up long-term over the summer.