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Michael Porter Jr: If we don’t win it this year, we all know they might have to break it up
All the questions about the Nuggets’ shooting and depth, and whether the young players the team is counting on to replace key contributors from the team that won a title in 2023 can ultimately do so, remained uncomfortably in the air. “I think people in general, they always want more and more and more, but they don’t know what they have,” Jokic said. “I’m really happy we have one title — a lot of very good players don’t win.” But the Nuggets have the best player in the world on their roster — whose prime, by Booth’s own definition, is more than half over. Which raises perhaps the most important question in the NBA: How do they maximize what’s left of it? “If we don’t win it this year,” forward Michael Porter Jr. told ESPN. “We all know they might have to break it up.”
Source: ESPN
Source: ESPN
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“Does this Denver Nuggets team look like a championship contender? Hell no.” 😳
@KendrickPerkins says Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. need to help NIkola Jokic 👀 pic.x.com/X3qZDqQd1E – 3:38 PM
“Does this Denver Nuggets team look like a championship contender? Hell no.” 😳
@KendrickPerkins says Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. need to help NIkola Jokic 👀 pic.x.com/X3qZDqQd1E – 3:38 PM
Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS
… I kinda like the Bill Simmons “Michael Porter Jr. and Zeke Nnaji for Zach LaVine” trade idea.
Chicago breaks up the LaVine contract and clears the ball-handling logjam for Coby and Giddey.
Denver gets a badly-needed dose of creation without sacrificing shooting. – 3:32 PM
… I kinda like the Bill Simmons “Michael Porter Jr. and Zeke Nnaji for Zach LaVine” trade idea.
Chicago breaks up the LaVine contract and clears the ball-handling logjam for Coby and Giddey.
Denver gets a badly-needed dose of creation without sacrificing shooting. – 3:32 PM
Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds
Nuggets have four players with at least 20 tonight … and Michael Porter Jr. has 14 entering OT.
Club record for 20-point scorers in a game: 5, done twice, both during the great Alex English era. – 10:12 PM
Nuggets have four players with at least 20 tonight … and Michael Porter Jr. has 14 entering OT.
Club record for 20-point scorers in a game: 5, done twice, both during the great Alex English era. – 10:12 PM
Duvalier Johnson @DuvalierJohnson
At the half: Nets 72, Nuggets 63
Regression on the defensive side of the ball on the 2nd night of a b2b, gave up 12 3-pointers already
Jamal has 13 points, Jokic has a near triple double with 10p/8r/7a and MPJ has 11 points
If you’re Malone, what’s your message to the team? – 8:42 PM
At the half: Nets 72, Nuggets 63
Regression on the defensive side of the ball on the 2nd night of a b2b, gave up 12 3-pointers already
Jamal has 13 points, Jokic has a near triple double with 10p/8r/7a and MPJ has 11 points
If you’re Malone, what’s your message to the team? – 8:42 PM
Vinny Benedetto @VBenedetto
Michael Malone’s sticking with the MPJ stagger in Brooklyn. Julian Strawther comes in for Porter in the middle of the first quarter.
Nets up 4. – 7:53 PM
Michael Malone’s sticking with the MPJ stagger in Brooklyn. Julian Strawther comes in for Porter in the middle of the first quarter.
Nets up 4. – 7:53 PM
More on this storyline
League sources said the Nuggets inquired about Paul George this offseason, but talks never escalated because Denver refused to discuss Braun, Watson or Strawther, and the Clippers weren’t interested in solely taking back future salary — likely the $147 million owed to Porter and Zeke Nnaji. -via ESPN / November 1, 2024
“I think we’ve got a lot of players that, they like to get to the midrange, they like to get to the rim,” Porter said. “So we know in this day in age, teams score a lot of points when they get some 3s up. So I don’t have my partner in crime, KCP. He was kind of a volume shooter last year. So we don’t have any really volume 3-point shooters. I think Jamal (Murray), he’ll shoot some 3s, but he likes to get to the middy. Joker should probably take a couple more per game. But I know it’s gonna be up to me and Julian (Strawther) to really be the volume 3-point shooters.” -via Denver Post / October 21, 2024
“With Denver, Joker [Nikola Jokic] is the best player in the league. But Denver’s second-best player is going backward. Jamal Murray hasn’t been the same. There is something about Jamal’s health and physical capacity right now that concerns me. Michael Porter is also terribly overrated. He’s a one-way player and just a scorer. I also don’t think Denver has the assets to get an upgrade. They’ll be stuck with the team they have.” -via SportsKeeda / October 14, 2024
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