Neither of those areas of the game are Faried’s strong suits. Power forwards today must be able to switch pick and rolls, shoot from outside or, preferably, do both (a la the Warriors’ Draymond Green). Part of that is the way the NBA has changed. The last three seasons must have been strange for Faried, who’s morphed from Denver’s starting power forward of the future into a guy many believe will be traded. Kenneth Faried: Another guy who is still around. He’s also a name frequently listed in trade rumors. Gallinari is under contract through this season and has a player option in 2017-18. Will we ever see him suit up for 75-plus games in a Denver uniform? We might not get that many more chances to find out. Gallinari is great when he plays - he averaged 19.5 points and 5.3 points last season and shot a respectable 36.4 percent from deep - but he’s struggled with health issues throughout his career. Still hereĭanilo Gallinari: Oh hey, somebody still on the Nuggets’ roster from 2013! An ACL tear cost Gallinari the entire 2013-14 season, and he’s played in 59 and 57 games in the two years since. He still has two years remaining on his contract with the Rockets. He played a big role on Houston’s 2014-15 Western Conference Finals team. He’s still a high-energy wing who compensates for his lack of outside touch by getting to the rim like a madman. Little has changed about Brewer since he left. He signed a two-year deal with Minnesota, then a three-year contract with the Rockets when that was up. Last we heard, Miller was contemplating retirement after the Spurs lost to the Thunder in the playoffs.Ĭorey Brewer: Brewer was part of the massive front office/coaching/player turnover after the 2012-13 season. The 40-year-old, a favorite of NBA nerds’ for his effectiveness despite not being able to jump over a deck of cards, has enjoyed a remarkably long professional basketball career. The Shaqtin’ A Fool regular appeared in just six games with the 76ers and 34 games with Dallas last season.Īndre Miller: The Professor! Miller has played for four franchises since Denver traded him in February 2014: Washington, Sacramento, Minnesota and San Antonio. He was traded to the basketball wasteland that is Philadelphia in February 2015. ![]() ![]() JaVale McGee: Like Lawson, McGee has had a rough go of it since leaving Denver. Now the 28-year-old is a free agent who’s still looking for his next deal. He finished out the year with the Indiana Pacers. He didn’t make much of an impact with the Rockets and was released. Lawson has continued to deal with some drinking issues - he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving for the fourth time in July 2015 - that have played a part in that derailment.ĭenver sent Lawson to Houston last summer for a first-round pick. Ty Lawson: While Iguodala’s career has taken off since the 2012-13 season, Lawson’s has crashed and burned. ![]() Durant will join Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Iguodala on a Warriors team that is the without-a-doubt NBA Finals favorite heading into next year. Golden State recently signed Kevin Durant, one of the best three or four players in the league. ![]() Iguodala is entering the final season of the four-year, $48 million deal he signed, and it promises to be an interesting one. He accepted a sixth-man role with the Golden State Warriors, who, if you’ve been living under a rock for the last two seasons, have won a championship and set the regular-season wins record. Long goneĪndre Iguodala: Iguodala’s career has taken on a new life since he left for Denver in a sign-and-trade in 2013. Let’s start with some of the guys who’ve left the Mile High City. Many of the core pieces of that George Karl-led 2012-13 squad that went 57-25 and fell to Golden State in the first round are long gone, including Andre Iguodala, Ty Lawson, Andre Miller.Īs NBA free agency winds down, Denverite decided to take stock of where the key players on the Nuggets’ last playoff team ended up. It’s been three seasons since the Denver Nuggets last made a playoff appearance, which in NBA time feels more like 17. Andre Iguodala has found success in Golden State since he left the Denver Nuggets in 2013.
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