Could Nuggets STILL BE TITLE CONTENDERS without adding to the roster? Bob Myers says NO! | NBA Today

Could Nuggets STILL BE TITLE CONTENDERS without adding to the roster? Bob Myers says NO! | NBA Today

The the players that got moved today Malika there was some nice players in there um and this may have been the there was no star y um there was no Allstar there might have been not a top three guy on a great team moved today so still those moves are important the

Thing I’m looking at is why didn’t Denver Shore up their I don’t know why nobody talks about Denver are we allowed to talk about Denver because they’re the defending champing champs should be defending champs I think they’re the favorite I wish they had added a Roy so

I think Phoenix’s Royce O’Neal move was big we haven’t talked about that if I was Denver I would have done a lot to get like a finny Smith or Royce O’Neal I think they’re that player away from winning a championship again from repeating and so not having the Bruce

Brown or Jeff Green from last year Denver relying on a pretty young bench I’m kind of surprised unless they’ve got some notion of a buyout player coming in and maybe that’s the plan I’m surprised they didn’t Shore up their bench a little bit because I would say right now

Denver’s the favorite to win the championship in in my the best with no they not it’s the it’s the Clippers why Jo I mean I don’t think the Clippers can guard joic like at all but B but Bob but Bob they stacked up at the center position for a reason

When you think about zubac you think about plumbley you think about Daniel tits and I could go out on the limb and said I I see no one on the devil nuggets that could stop kawh Leonard and you could throw Aaron Gordon out there if you want to I didn’t seen kawh Leonard

Bust the best of them up and I’m talking about from LeBron to dwade to Giannis to Jimmy Butler to whoever you want to name so when I think about the Clippers they have the deepest roster in the team on the in the league and on top of that yes

Uh Michael Malone is the championship coach but you know who else is the championship coach Tyron L I am not surprised I am not surprised didn’t do anything they have no tradable first round picks I don’t care if Prime Michael Jordan said I want to be a

Nugget today they couldn’t have traded a first form they had three tradeable second round picks that’s it and almost all of their salary is tied up in their top five players none of whom they wanted to touch so they didn’t have the material if you’re going to talk about

The Lakers not being able to do anything the nuggets are in the same boat but they got a better team so uh that’s that’s and then you know they are they are very expensive too well look then they have to go out and and I think if

You’re in that front office you have a CH you have probably the best player in the NBA right now we can argue who’s the second best with embiid being out if embiid’s Healthy You could argue yic MB you got the best player in the prime of

His career you should have a plan you cannot lose a title because you just didn’t have a sixth or seventh man you have to have one in the buyout then you’re limited in trade options you have to Target a buyout player and get one more veteran he doesn’t have to be a

Great player one more guy that can play defense on the perimeter because you cannot again you everybody everybody watched the finals last year and I’d ask everybody do they win the championship without Bruce Brown and Jeff Green it sounds like a crazy they don’t right and

So we talk about stars and this and that fa really quick really quickly how they your favorites right now they’re my favorites because in a series even I think you you picked the team that might give them some some trouble I’m always per betting on the best player in the

Series and I think I like Kawhi leard he’s has a fantastic year in my opinion the gap between joic and Qui Leonard is still big in the series I see updated odds after the trade deadline to win the title the Nuggets of the second best well and the thing that I’m saying Bob

You brought up some great points the Denver Nuggets to me are one of those weird teams that also have a window they also have a window because when they have to go and resign all of these guys that money is going to go extremely high think about the Warriors right look

Aaron Gordon’s young Jamal Murray’s Young you got kcp obviously joic is going to you know the deals that these guys sign all of a sudden you start to look at they become a tax team how far into the tax do they go the second apron

So when you look at it yes they got three second round picks if are if they could get one more player one more player they can get a championship in my opinion like we said about the two key play let point something out there’s new

Rules this year if you are a if you are into the first apron and I know it’s boring to talk about the apron it’s not if you are in the first apron you cannot sign a player who was bought out and then made more than the average player M

So for example Spencer Den witty looks like he’s getting bought out by the Toronto Raptors even if Spencer dwit he wanted to be a nugget more than anything in the world they are not allowed to sign him right he and so the nuggets are a little bit hamstrung by the new rules

And where they’re let me mention this as well we talk about the teams that have not made Moves the Nuggets by not making a move maybe didn’t hurt themselves who among the Nuggets primary you know Chasers help themselves today nobody Thunder the Thunder not ready the not ready maybe but the Thunder’s not

Ready to catch them and also already made their move the Clippers made their move with James Hardon yeah I I I I think the Royce O’Neal move uh was big I I really do I think that move gives Phoenix exactly what they needed they do not need any more scoring they need to

PR to defense they needed somebody that can close with them this Durant at the five lineup is is going to scare other teams to death you put out you can start Royce O’Neal you can you can play him uh with Grayson out you can play Roy O’Neal

With all their lineups he’s a good perimeter Defender he’s shooting I think 36 37 from three that’s exactly what the Phoenix needed and I think Phoenix is finally coming around but what I’m saying is is this Bob you said like KD at the F and we just had me

And you just went back and this is some of the conversations you and I used to have when you were my agent and we used to to argue because you just said about how yic is just the reason you’re picking the nuggets and then you come back and tell me something about KD

Being at the five and using that to Advantage like if they put KD at the five when they match up against the Denver Nuggets they’re going to get smoked okay they’re gonna get smoked perk perk you’re right no one can guard yic not not you in your Prime not anyone

Which is fine not to be no nobody can Durant can’t either the way to beat Denver is not to try to stop joic picture joic guarding Durant now I don’t think Phoenix will beat Denver in a series okay I don’t but to beat Denver in a series you don’t try to say we’re

Gonna we’re gonna get somebody to stop jic you might say okay we can’t guard you you Tred guarding Durant I still think Denver beats him in the series but I think we’re talking about who helped themselves yeah I think Phoenix helped themselves I think Gordon Hayward helps

OKC are they enough to make the nuggets keep the nuggets out of the West out of out of representing the West yeah said what I look [Applause] [Applause] like

Bob Myers, Michael Wilbon, Richard Jefferson, Brian Windhorst and Kendrick Perkins join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss if the Denver Nuggets needed to add to the team to be real contenders for the title. They also debate whether the Nuggets or the Los Angeles Clippers are more likely championship contenders.

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