The Nuggets are a workforce that a number of NBA insiders are involved about this coming season and one predicts that there could possibly be huge adjustments coming for the 2023 champions.
If Denver go in the identical manner did final season with a second-round exit, anticipate main adjustments, Zach Lowe says.
“In the event that they lose in the same spherical like a second spherical once more this 12 months, this feels just like the 12 months the place if that occurs, the subsequent season one thing huge is gonna change,” Lowe mentioned on NBA on ESPN just lately. “I don’t know what it’s. I simply know this core is enormously costly. Aaron Gordon is gonna quickly be up for a giant extension that can give him an even bigger wage quantity. The bench is younger and untested. There are extra questions than there actually ought to be a couple of workforce that was the no-brainer favourite to win the West final season and fell two rounds wanting the place they needed to get. In the event that they don’t get the place they should get this season, I believe one thing there’s gonna change.”
Lowe’s ESPN colleague Brian Windhorst shared comparable issues when he spoke about Jamal Murray’s struggles within the playoffs and the Olympics and the very fact his huge contract might be up quickly.
“They’ve run out of time with cheaper contracts and the stress has arrived,” Windhorst mentioned
In the meantime, Invoice Simmons says out of 30 NBA groups, the Nuggets are is greatest concern heading into 2024-25.
“Final 12 months is an entire fluke, I don’t perceive what occurred in that Recreation 7, possibly not a fluke however one of the uncommon Recreation 7s within the historical past of the league after which after they’re all speaking about how they’re useless and folks have performed in two straight finals earlier than, Simmons mentioned on his self-titled podcast.”… there’s no manner the Nuggets had it more durable than the Warriors. I don’t know the place this goes, however I don’t like the place we’re,” Simmons mentioned.
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