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The Sixth Man: Aaron Gordon has revived his career and might be Denver’s key piece to a championship run

Selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2014 draft, Aaron Gordon has burdened high expectations since leaving Arizona. While at school, he compiled five awards in his one season. He won 2013-14 All Pac-12, All Pac-12 Tournament, Pac-12 All-Freshman, Pac-12 ROY, and NCAA All-Region. He bursted onto the NBA scene after leading the Wildcats to the top seed in their region and an appearance in the elite eight. After losing to Wisconsin in the elite eight, Gordon decided to enter the NBA draft and would be taken 4th, 37 spots ahead of our very own Nikola Jokic.

At the time nobody could have foreseen Gordon and Jokic playing alongside each other and Jokic being the star player.