If it’s any comfort, the two of them are flourishing in their newfound roles since being traded to Minnesota, with Beasley (21.1 ppg) and Juancho (14.0 ppg) both averaging double-digit points per game.
Not enough to ease your pain? Well, there’s always that first-round draft pick to snuggle up to.
The Nuggets received the pick, which originally belonged to Houston, as part of a deal that also brought back Keita Bates-Diop, Noah Vonleh, Shabazz Napier and Gerald Green.
With Bates-Diop and Vonleh stuck on the bench, Napier traded again (for a guy the Nuggets have already bought out) and Green also gone, it appears that pick is the only thing Nuggets fans have left to fill the void left behind by Malik and Juancho.