The basketball skill that Denver misses most about Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was a subject of banter between him and DeAndre Jordan when they encountered each other as teammates for the first time.
They work out at the same Los Angeles area gym during the summers. When they showed up in 2022, they were both new Nuggets — Caldwell-Pope via trade, Jordan via free agency.
“He brought it up to me,” Jordan remembered, grinning. “Us being competitors throughout the course of our careers, and me illegally screening him a ton.”
Jordan appreciates nothing more than verbal jousting, and Caldwell-Pope was always game.