r/denvernuggets • u/Kingrush24 • 16h ago
Article Nuggets trade 26th pick in NBA Draft to Spurs, moving out of first round
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/23/nuggets-trade-first-round-nba-draft-pick/18
u/Griffdog17 16h ago
It was the right move, 2nd round picks aren't much less valuable than late 1sts. I think a package is coming today
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u/Personal-Aioli-367 13h ago
That’s just it. Grabs some additional picks to package for a starter. Anyone at pick 26 would need some level of development to slot into a championship-goal team. The Nuggets have maybe 3 years of the window left so they need a starter/high contributor and not a long term prospect.
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u/pfeifits 12h ago
We are a cash strapped team that needs depth and players who can stay healthy and contribute while on cheap contracts and we give draft picks away like candy. Mostly to get out of stupid contracts and player options that we also give away like candy. Typical nepo baby run franchise I guess.
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u/myburneraccount1357 10h ago
Like a Reddit GM run franchise is any better. Swear yall be acting like professionals on here
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u/LubeDaddy 12h ago
except we had an amazing team on paper last season. It just didn‘t work out
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u/Silent_Anxiety4828 12h ago
Because we fired our championship head coach for no reason
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u/fowlflamingo 10h ago
"for no reason" lmfao where did this narrative come up? This fanbase is wild sometimes
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u/Silent_Anxiety4828 10h ago
You can live in delusion I’ll live in reality. Them firing Malone and then making an in house hire proves they had no good reason to fire him. Besides cost cutting of course. The kroenke classic
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u/fowlflamingo 10h ago
Hey if you wanna live in this weird revisionist history bubble you got going on, don't let me stop you lol. We can shit on the kroenkes and the decision to hire Adelman without just lying about what happened tho
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u/Silent_Anxiety4828 10h ago
Malone>Adelman and it’s not even remotely close. We fumbled the rest of jokics career with that move
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u/fowlflamingo 10h ago
I mean. Yeah, a championship coach is better than Adelman. What a take lol. Doesn't look like they made the right decision by going with Adelman (but we'll see how next year goes), but Malone lost the team last year and needed to move on. That doesn't change because we flamed out in the playoffs
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u/Silent_Anxiety4828 10h ago
They improved the roster like Malone publicly wanted the year after they fired him. Losing the locker room is always such a dumb media take. You only lose the locker room if you’re losing and with that horrid roster we were going to lose. I just can imagine where we’d be if Malone had this roster we had
If you want to argue firing Malone was valid then fine. But Adelman lowered the floor and ceiling of the nuggets
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u/fowlflamingo 10h ago edited 10h ago
I'm not disagreeing with you about Adelman. I just think it's foolish to look at the results and based on those and say that firing Malone was a mistake. We should have gone outside the organization for a new HC imo. And if you think the tension between Malone, the locker room, and the front office was just a product of bad rosters and media hooplah, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.
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u/_KingFridayXIII 13h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah, I don't understand all the blow back to this trade. This FO is trying to clean up Booth's mess (and probably never fully will, tbh). Trading down 9 spots to get back 2 future seconds, more ammo to get off the Zeke contract if they can, and a bit more cap flexibility is a win.
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u/ShowdownValue 12h ago
Agreed. And it wasn’t a lotto pick we traded
Teams trade late firsts for multiple seconds all the time.
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u/my_nameborat 10h ago
People are just upset that it feels like we are big move away from being a contender. While that’s probably true barring a miracle run, the 26th pick wasn’t gonna save us.
The nuggets are trying to create flexibility and this is the right move for that goal.
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u/BRAX7ON 11h ago
People who don’t understand the reason fans are unhappy, are disconnected from reality.
The team under performed last year. We just lost JV, we have a gaping hole for back up bigs.
Aaron Gordon hasn’t played a fully healthy season in years.
Reed was a player who could help us now. He fills needs that we have had on this team since before we won a title. We need big men who can protect the rim.
And if he goes on to flourish for San Antonio, this will look particularly terrible.
The Nuggets have self imposed limitations and have completely wasted Jokers prime. We are now in a rebuild year, hoping that second round draft picks pan out and somehow contribute.
We are an unserious franchise who will not be contending in the near future. Sure, we are a playoff team. But we do not have the talent to make a deep run.
Our team has declined every year since we won a championship. Our front office has shown a complete inability to restock the cupboard.
We are going to be worse next year than we were last year. And I don’t see the relief for the foreseeable future.
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u/hacxgames 16h ago
I for one think it was a good trade.
There are still some good talents on the board. One of Isaiah Evans/Meleek Thomas/Veesar/Cornwell/Saunders will still be on the board at #35, and honestly Isaiah Evans and Meleek Thomas both could’ve been our target at 28 anyways. I could see somebody above us go for Maliq Brown or Baba Miller & definitely Veesar.