COLORADO SPRINGS – Nuggets wing Will Barton has a habit of saying things that are illuminating, confusing and funny all at once.
So when Barton pleaded ignorance to the Nuggets’ open competition at small forward Friday, a battle that he’s supposedly a part of, it was best to take his comments in jest.
“It’s open?” he said excitedly. “I didn’t know that! Nobody told me that….(Coach) told y’all that? I didn’t know that.”
A slow start to camp had no bearing on Barton’s jovial mood. Barton has been limited by a nagging hamstring injury he sustained during the team’s open gyms in September.