>**Denver Nuggets**
>**Front office discussions:** Are the young reserves off the board if a trade materializes that can improve the bench now but might negatively impact the future? Who is expendable if a player bought out of their contract becomes available? The Nuggets have 15 players under contract.
>**Off the board:** Nikola Jokic ($47.6M, Player 2027) and Jamal Murray ($33.8M, UFA 2025)
>**Players with trade value:** Zeke Nnaji ($4.3M, Player 2027)
>*Note: Nnaji has a manageable poison-pill restriction that does not prevent Denver from moving him if needed.*
>**Free agents in July:** Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ($14.7M, Player), Reggie Jackson ($5M, Player), Justin Holiday ($2M, UFA), Vlatko Cancar ($2.2M, Team) and DeAndre Jordan ($2M, UFA)
>**Controllable contracts:** Christian Braun ($2.9M, RFA 2026), Peyton Watson ($2.3M, RFA 2026), Julian Strawther ($2.4M, RFA 2027), Jalen Pickett ($1.7M, Team 2026) and Hunter Tyson ($1.1M, Team 2026)
>**Long-term salary:** Michael Porter Jr. ($33.4M, UFA 2027) and Aaron Gordon ($22.3M, Player 2025)
>**Draft capital:** The Nuggets owe Orlando a top-five protected first in 2025, 2026 or 2027. They will send Oklahoma City a top-five protected first, two years after the Magic first is conveyed. They will send an additional first to the Thunder, two years after the original first is conveyed. The pick is top-five protected. They can trade their 2024 first but only on the night of the draft. The Nuggets can trade swap rights to their 2024 first now. Denver has three second-round picks available to trade.
>**The finances:** Denver is $12.6M over the luxury tax and is projected to pay a $22.7M penalty. The Nuggets are $5.7M below the second apron. Denver is not allowed to sign a player waived during the season who had a preexisting salary in 2023-24 greater than $12.4M.
by vonheisenberg
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Unless we trade Zeke at the deadline I don’t foresee any changes in the roster all the way to playoffs
We have so little flexibility, so I don’t think we do much if anything. Fine with me
Can someone tell me why we resigned Zeke?
I just want Booth to draft a center with the same success that he drafted Braun, Watson, and Strawther.
Fuck it, spend 3-4 late first and second round picks all on bigs, and if one of them sticks as good as those guys I’ll be thrilled.
Just wait til Vlatko is back. Denver has everything they need.
How much will it take to re-sign KCP and will it be worth it at age 31?
Pelicans after Jarret Allen?
Nance owed 11 mil next year
If make an add Kleber or Nance 2 of only guys worth it to me
Most other options not an upgrade
I wished Naz Reid was a Nugget . So underrated Center backup