Nikola Jokic: “We just lost in the first round. I think we are far away.” Changes needed? “That’s not my decision. Definitely, if we were in Serbia, we would all be fired.”
they might send Braun to Serbia
5 year 125 million extension kicks in this summer. We’re just gettting started baby
Worst contract in the league?
patrick williams erasure
These fat contracts for mid level players kill teams championship hopes. I get why teams go for 2 stars + mins and hope for growth.
no team in the league has two guys paid a shit ton and everyone else on a min
Warriors erasure
They have like 4 players making more than 25 million this year.
Obviously an exaggeration but the point being you need to develop depth. Not pay for it
The Boston special. As much as it pains me to say, Brad Stevens is absolutely amazing.
Boston is pretty close lol. They have some great contracts on some of their younger guys.
Poeltl
Not even the worst contract on the Nuggets. In the next 3 years Jamal Murray makes \(50, \)53, and $57 million lmao
Omg
Do retired players count? If so Luol Deng and Mozgov
please dont remind me
Dorian Finney Smith 4 year / $52M, and he averages 3 points and 2 rebounds a game
Only one more year guaranteed.
thank god
No shot. $25MM/yr isn’t unreasonable for a role player now, it’ll be nothing in 5 years. There are contracts for more than double that per year that are total albatrosses.
It’s too much for a SG who can’t shoot.
Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups?
Prison league
Naji on the same team
Jordan Poole has entered the chat
No shot they gave him that kinda money wtf
People on this subreddit was calling it a steal when the deal got announced
They call any contract on a team they like a steal and any contract on a team they don’t a mistake
literally nobody said that lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1obpo0z/charania_denver_nuggets_guard_christian_braun_has/
That just proves his point, there’s only one comment saying it’s potentially a steal.
Everyone saying it was a fair deal for both sides or a great contract isn’t the same as thinking it’s a steal
People were absolutely calling it a great contract
To be fair, they didn’t state which side got the steal 🤪
And they called McDaniels deal an overpay when he signed his lol
Maybe the most delusional of fans lol, the ones who watch the games know he’s a Jokic merchant
Half of fame agent right there.
teams really need to stop paying anybody. he’s a 15 mil a year player max. if that
Two years ago he shot 40% from 3, led the league in fast break points, played good defense, and got the team fired up with big dunks. He was looking like a prototypical 3/D player that any team would want at 24 years old. He got hurt this year and since he came back has been completely invisible. He would not have resigned for 15.
We’ll see if the new CBA that’ll happen either in 2028 or after the 29-30 season increases the salary cap a similar amount as the 2016 one but it isn’t looking fantastic for the Nuggets unless Braun finds his 2 season ago form again.
125 million for white Corey Brewer still cracks me up
Deym! Back in my day 5 year 125m contract could get you a Kobe Bryant tier player. Now you get guys like Braun for that amount. Jeez. Tbf you could also get a Chandler Parsons guy for that amount back in my day too.
Send 2-3 years Serbia and forget.
One phone call only six months
Are ya’ll writing in broken Slavic prose or am I tired?
They’re riffing on a quote from Islam Makhachev, a Russian MMA fighter.
Yes
Idk if he makes those teams
I think he meant the Jokic bros going to…. you know
Jokic bros gonna turn Braun into a mule lmao
Brauns ankle is far worse than people realize. Nuggets beat reporters were saying he should have had season ending surgery to repair ligament tears in his foot but is battling through it. After every game he’s in visible discomfort.
Send him to train under Željko Obradović.
You might as well get another ticket for Jamal.
Hiss ass wouldn’t get playing time in Serbia, a guard that can’t shoot, dribble or create his own offense?
He would average 30 in serbia lmao
I can’t recall a bucket he made in this series.
Send him to Siberia?
2-3 years Serbia and forget
His 2 brothers will personally welcome him from the airport
Adelman got outcoached badly in this series. He’s done
Doc Rivers is coming
dont you dare put that evil on me ricky bobby
Please that would be so funny
Roses are red, don’t ever call me a poser
With this sacred treasure I summon…
MIKE BUDENHOLZER, THE WINDOW CLOSER
Fuuuuuuck
Holy shit please
He comes for us all
yo dude chill😂😂😂
DON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RICKY BOBBY
I never thought he was an upgrade from an outsider looking in. Who knows?
Seemed like an upgrade at the end of last season, but might’ve just been new coach honeymoon. Thought he was decent in the regular season but was atrocious in the playoffs.
I always thought Malone was a really good coach and Adelman was a step down. I think they just had the new coach boost like you said. Sometimes a coach loses a locker room and it drags the team down, so replacing them with a warm body is an improvement.
He was atrocious in RS too, his way of playing was just dickriding the 2 stars and that’s it. Nuggets offence took a massive hit when Jokic was no more a 70% TS%, it is not a coincidence…
Back to modelling for Mad Magazine
Back to Impractical Jokers
What was the biggest part of him getting outcoached?
Couldn’t adapt to Minnesota’s small ball line up, panicked too early and relied on Murray and Jokic too much, had horrible out of timeout plays which were read almost instantly, bad press conferences, bad motivation for players, etc.
It’s not all on him, of course.
The part where his team couldn’t stop the Wolves’ 5th string guard from getting to the rack at will.
One could hope. We will hear about it on his podcast
He’s done. He’s fuckin done
And not just on twitch.
Bah gawd that’s Mark Jackson’s music
Didn’t really follow this series, what did Finch do to outcoach him?
Code for: None of yall safe. Get your houses on the market.
I wonder if he signs the max extension. He oddly didn’t sign it last offseason. And now he’s an unrestricted free agent in 2027.
Luka need a big right?
He’s not a lob threat but Jokic will suffice
Wdym his 3 inch vert not enough? Lmao
All you need when you’re tall enough.
In a Serbian interview he did earlier this year he said that he wants to win championships, but that he’d want to stay with the Nuggets for his whole career even if they never won one, and that if they never win another, he still wants to stay in Denver.
Maybe it’s smoke, but that was an interview he gave in his own home to a Serbian basketball journalist who has been his friend since before he got drafted to the NBA.
The whole organization and team, straight to the gulag
It’s goli otok for Yugoslavia
Ironically also nicknamed “Tito’s Gulag”
So people can understand better as it is more famous
It’s literally named Barren Island, so way cooler name than gulag
Jokic+Wemby would be so fucking lit. And the Spurs probably have the assets to pull it off if Jokic requests a trade.
That would be a hilarious way of getting bailed out of the Fox contract lol.
Nuggets get to kickstart a rebuild with Harper+picks. Spurs get to win a few rings with Jokic+Wemby. Win-win.
Send em 2-3 months dagestan and forget
Islam is great at Dagestan basketball. sign him to the Nuggets
Someone like Dort tries some sketchy shit, Islam will have him on the ground with multiple broken bones.
They should learn Dagestani basketball. They won’t learn basketball, but they definitely wouldn’t be called bad defenders after that.
Gobert can defend the rim but can he defend an armbar
Serbia looks tough bro. Murray would be ejected from his airplane seat going home. 😭
Not even jokić is safe from Serbian fans and reporters. Would be thorn apart.
i know you’re probably joking but surely serbia knows jokic is the best player they will ever get and that they shouldn’t treat him like shit
No they treat him like shit. Even more if he cancels to join the national team.
We treat him like shit because he supports our dictator and promotes sports betting agencies. He’s a redneck in it’s truest form.
damn serbia don’t give a shit about ball
They give shit about ball but respect more hustle and will to play. If you play like a turd you gonna be respected as one.
Serbians If you get into NBA and ballin: I sleep
Serbians if you ball good for your national squad: real shit
Its about holding people accountable. If you treat your stars like babies then they will act like one.
That’s not how it works on Serbia dude ahaha
Before the Paris Olympics, he was heavily criticized here for not playing in some big tournaments for the national team.
It’s easy to defend Jokic from the outside and blame it all on the supporting cast since he’s Serbian and playing on a foreign team, but if the Nuggets were the Serbian national team or Partizan/Crvena zvezda (Serbia’s most popular club teams) for example, even Jokic would get torn apart after this series.
While it is true that he is the best player ever in Serbia, we have bigger basketball heroes here like Djordjevic, Stojaković, Bodiriga…
They don’t call Serbia “The Detroit of Yugoslavia” for nothing
How about another joke, Murray?
ejecto seato cuz!
We need a coaching staff that can motivate the team to be more gritty and motivated, especially when you’re down to an elimination game. Wolves actually played like they’re the one being eliminated
To be fair, if we went back to Denver, we would be eliminated with hardly a starting lineup in hostile territory. Many of us fans, at least, saw this as an elimination game.
Your team was missing Russ. Was a huge energy spark coming off the bench, which is exactly what your team needs. Can’t believe they let him go and went after Bruce Brown sorry ass 😭.
Letting him go was another front office blunder. Could’ve had them both tbh.
LMAOOOO he’s funny.
I wanted to see more jokic in the playoffs, but their squad is just doo doo
Jokic a big part of that tbf
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You actually didn’t score at that high a rate, though. Realistically you won the series with awesome defense.
Shhh don’t tell them the truth
yea but wolves offence without Ant and donte AND ayo now is horrible. It should be shocking they got over 80 points. No offense to jaden mcdaniels but hes not an offensive player
really can just say whatever you want after a loss
Dawg WHAT. God damn this sub is dumb
He had a horrific series but he isn’t the sole issue with this team.
Rudy was just stellar and did not allow Joker to control the game. Rudy deserves his flowers
Rudy definitely was the mvp of this series, he was able to lock Jokic so much, I think it shocked him.
Totally. Made Jokic’s life hell and no one was around to take the heat off of him.
Definitely not a big part of that lmao. He’s the reason they are as good as they are. Take him off this roster and how much worse are they? People really don’t think about the sentences they write haha
Aaron Gordon needs a retroactive DPoY, and like 5 all-defensive teams for anchoring this nuggets defense. People understand Jokic is a bad defender, but he’s been hiding how utterly useless a rim protector Jokic is for years.
Jokic is a glass cannon, if you surrounded him with enforcers and great help defenders then he is absolutely still one of the best playoff 1st options in the league. I mean the nuggets perimeter defenders are just not athletic enough, not smart enough to make up for it.
Turns out having long athletic players who are tough is a good strategy
Why do you think yall got OG and paid 5 firsts for Mikal? To make up for Jalen and Kat’s deficiencies
Yea I’m agreeing with you bro
I mean he definitely did, wolves had guys step up, nuggets didn’t at all
Wolves didnt even score well in the series. Jokic and the nuggets awful offense was their downfall
It wasn’t just him. They went after everybody.
There are perimeter defenders that also made that job easier.
This brother typed “run at jokic for a layup” as if you hunt their center lmao. These dudes never played ball in their lives. Yea Jokic played horrific defense but the perimeter defenders were just as bad
Why doesn’t the center just stop the guard who is running past his defender with no resistance at full speed?
Right? Yes Joker didn’t look good but they were missing Gordon and Watson, plus none of his perimeter defenders helped him out on top of the Twolves being a horrible match-up with all of their big, athletic players. Not every team can make him look this bad on defense. The Twolves are built to make him miserable on offense and defense but their offense gave the Nuggets problems in general this series.
It’s so fucking funny that a wolves fan doesn’t understand that a center can’t make up for a roster of poor perimeter players as if Gobert wasn’t slandered for this when they made the trade and in Utah lmao. Only a few years ago, the Gobert trade was the worst in nba history because he’s unplayable in the playoffs.
kinda like how other teams have played Rudy off the floor because he can’t guard on the perimeter? matchups matter
Wolves won those games on the other end
Jamal Murray All-NBA second option
Aaron Gordon elite role player, perfect fit
Cameron Johnson 3 and D
Peyton Watson fantastic off the bench
Braun, Brown energy guys
THJ microwave shooter off the bench.
It is absolutely not a doo-doo squad at all. But Gordon and Watson provide a very very specific skillset that is needed on a Jokic team. They are the only two who can provide it so both of them being injured really hurt them (alongside Murray and Jokic underperforming)
Cam sucked most of the series. Thj sucked most of the series. Jamal didnt take the leap most people thought he did. Jokic was a tier below since his injury. It was a bunch of regular season mirages.
“Jamal didn’t take the leap?” He was much worse than previous playoff runs
Here comes the excuses lmao. Denver was the overwhelming favorite here, even with AG out. Most serious analysts had Denver as inner circle title contenders
Yeah most of them got too high on jokic having “his best supporting cast ever”, and “jamal murray’s leap” early in the season and never changed their tune. Nuggets fans were less optimistic since jokics return from injury when his touch never returned.
his touch never returned.
Yea, that’s a huge issue and clearly the team live and dies on it
Yes everyone thought they should and would win. But a lot of his supporting cast was objectively awful for a lot of the series, so it’s time to reevaluate how to think of his supporting cast
Lmfao points for honesty I suppose
He’s nothing if not honest.
“Did you play well?” “No.” “What would happen if you were in Serbia?” “All fired. Straight to gulag.”
So get rid of everyone except Joker
AG can stay too. Only guy that has improved since before we won a ring.
His body is not reliable anymore
Which is a shame, dude is a baller
And cant stay healthy 2 playoffs in a row now.
Let’s just rest him all year until March. Sounds like a plan to me
The Nuggets are right on track in their quest to become the Bucks of the West.
They beat y’all ass though
Only us. They get an extra boost for some reason. I think it was that game winner in lockdown that filled a permanent hate
Felt
Can they fire Mike Malone again?
How dare you call him that
This made me chuckle
They miss MPJ, his gravity was far more important for Jokic-Murray pick and roll. Now they just let weakest defender on Cam. Last year, it was McDaniels guarding MPJ
We didn’t play Minnesota in the playoffs last year
Jokić emerged from the showers and had a startling revelation. The most necessary item he needed to start the offseason was missing. “Someone stole my championship,’’ Jokić announced, part alarmed, part panicked, part irritated. He looked up, down, to the left, to the right, bewildered, frustrated…
That excerpt was unbelievable 😭
Get ready to learn horse adelman
Two years Serbia and forget
He’s playing with Luka
The Reddit post for a Jokic trade to the Lakers would knock Reddit out for a few days.
I would knock myself out on the come down from the cocaine bender I would go on if the Lakers got Jokic.
mix in some laxatives too, its like a cheat code for coke benders.
Complete freedom
Negative defense lakers…
Blow it up!!! Trade Jokić and set him free. Best thing Denver can do for itself and Jokić
Nah. Sacrifice everyone to Bluecifer for a Rockies World Series
To the Lakers for a bag of chips
You are insane
Welp the window is closed, fun while it lasted
Coach is gone, firing Mike Malone was a mistake.
Also the whole team except for Jokic is up for sale, just like with the Hawks tonight, Denver loss in embarrassing fashion and things can’t not be allowed to stay the same the way this playoffs has been handled.
Mike Malone smiling right now.
Jokic about to start making demands. If Spencer Jones plays 35 mins in another playoff game he’s out of here.
*fired upon
TBF Jokic was damn near useless the entire series. It starts from him. He was in Minnesota jail. Despite Minnesota losing 3 starters due to injury, they still got clapped
Just get AD
Tough crowd
Bucks won 1 with bud, nuggets won 1 with mike Malone. They both got “ran out of town” because the vets got tired of listening to the coaches.
Dynasties or continued success are increasingly more difficult because the players are soft and front offices have no patience. The golden age of NBA, if it ever happened in the first place, is long gone