The Ringer’s Howard Beck: How Nuggets Stay Relevant in the Competitive West | The Rich Eisen Show
what do the Nuggets need to do to stay competitive in the west it’s getting tougher and tougher Susie um we are certainly living in an era of incredible parody in the NBA uh you know a few weeks from now the NBA will Crown its sixth different champion in a six-year stretch that hasn’t happened since the late 70s and most teams that that are winning the title are built around you know not multiple Superstars we are long past the Superstar or the super team era it’s now you know usually one supreme star and a bunch of really well- calibrated role players around him right the Giannis bucks were like that the Kawhi lard Raptors were like that the yic nuggets are like that all due respect to Jamaal Murray but he hasn’t even made an All-Star team yet so um your margin for error is a little bit thinner when it’s one Superstar plus a bunch of really good role players and so you know we saw that with the Nuggets uh there’s obviously you know a little bit of attrition to when just you’ve had you know a long season and played into June last year there’s all of that um the new CBA makes it really tough to retain talent and to keep paying or adding talent and the Nuggets faced that last offseason when they lost Bruce Brown and Jeff Green to free agency they didn’t really have a bench to lean on and Michael Malone mentioned that more than once you know over the last uh few days of the of the postseason and during the regular season even so what do they do um they’re not going to have a lot of tools at their disposal to add in free agency this summer unless guys want to come there for minimum contracts which maybe you know playing with yok it just is is a lot of fun and gives you a chance to to chase a title so that could happen the really interesting scenario would be do you trade one of your core pieces you know Michael Porter Jr is making a lot of money 35 to 40 million over the next few years and you know could you trade him for two to three pieces to help replenish the rotation but they also have you know another looming concern which is that cavius calwell Pope who was the the critical last piece of that starting lineup that they acquired before they won the championship he can opt out in this summer and almost certainly will and he’s a great 3 andd player who’s won championships with two different teams and who’s going to be you know heavily pursued and recruited so uh if they lose kcp they’re they’re going to have an even tougher uh uphill battle than than what you’re alluding to right now but it’s going to be tough regardless because Dallas isn’t going anywhere Minnesota’s not going anywhere the Oklahoma City Thunder who the Mavericks beat they’re very very young and only getting better and with plenty of flexibility to keep building so yeah it’s it’s it’s going to be tough for the Nuggets catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to3 Eastern for free
The Ringer’s Howard Beck tells Rich Eisen Show guest host Suzy Shuster what the Denver Nuggets must do to remain competitive Western Conference.
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Um…keep playing the way they are with the best player in the world…? Maybe…?