The mighty Denver Nuggets, the Western Conference champions set to begin the franchise's first NBA Finals on Thursday, were not feeling so mighty on the afternoon of March 25, 2021.
The mighty Denver Nuggets, the Western Conference champions set to begin the franchise’s first NBA Finals on Thursday, were not feeling so mighty on the afternoon of March 25, 2021.
plus a 2025 first-round pick and rookie guard R.J. Hampton, but Harris predated Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray with this franchise. Harris helped establish the Nuggets' lunch-pail environment that is admittedly dripping with cliches."He was a big part of us kind of building our team into what it is," Malone said Monday. So as news of the trade filtered throughout the Nuggets' bus, player after player broke down in tears.
He wasn’t always that lynchpin, and that’s what made Harris so integral to what Denver’s been developing since starting a rebuild in 2013. It once seemed like he’d be a footnote in franchise lore, when Harris followed being selected No. 19 in the 2014 NBA Draft with a worrisome first season. “Historically low numbers. And we started thinking, like, ‘Did we make a mistake?’” former Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas once told Yahoo Sports.
The deal was made, those tears were shed. And with Gordon in tow, the Nuggets rattled off eight straight victories during his first eight games alongside Jokić. Gordon’s athleticism added another dimension to a swirling offense around its MVP center. Gordon’s passing ability as a ball mover — not necessarily a ball handler, like much of his time experimenting in Orlando — was a welcomed addition from the start. They beat the pants off Atlanta and a top-seeded Philadelphia team at home.
The framework, however, fell apart. The Nuggets fell to the Warriors in the first round. Connelly departed the franchise following a lavish offer to run the Timberwolves, and Denver elevated longtime executive Calvin Booth to pilot the front office.
Brown ignored the rumblings. He’d heard that too many teams to count were preparing to offer him a payday. But when free agency began, the Nets didn’t make a significant bid to retain him. Brown goes further. “Nobody really wanted me,” he said. “Because they didn’t know if I could be a guard or not. I kinda took it personal.” By Brown’s second day lingering on the open market, Booth felt his palms beginning to itch.
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