I understand why they did it but it is still crazy they denver didn't try harder to make the jokic nurkic parrying work...
When the blazers trade one of dame or cj Nurkic is going to start putting up the same numbers as Jokic...
It was never going to work between those two, but throwing in a first rounder ontop of it was just
I think adding Nurkic and getting 3 first round picks this summer has made it easier for them to keep Lillard/McCollum together. They can draft some purely defensive minded players, like it they can get OG Anunoby that would be a great pickup for them, he's injured and will probably slip down to their range.
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...it HAS to be larger wing player who is still an offensive threat but at least an average defender in the nba