EternaBoi | Bulls

1550 | 19 hours ago

I mean… He’s going back to Europe isn’t he?

ObiOneKenobae | Knicks

476 | 19 hours ago

That’s my understanding too, but Shams isn’t the only one that’s been saying teams will pursue him. Knicks beat reporter said the same thing a couple days ago.

WebstersPack

-115 | 19 hours ago

Jesus. Just expand the draft. Why pay Val another $5m+ to take up space on the beach and run in a handleful of practices. You telling me there isn't a college kid somewhere that has the same run and would go that for $1.5m???

FKJVMMP | MIL

161 | 19 hours ago

Don’t need to expand the draft for that, nothing stopping these teams from signing UDFAs instead. They’d just prefer a vet.

HokageEzio | Knicks

90 | 19 hours ago

You think there are 90 viable players coming into the draft every season? A bunch of those guys would just be better off staying in college.

EdwardJamesAlmost | Nuggets

-6 | 17 hours ago

The issue is that there isn’t a basketball “minor league” in any way comparable to the NBA, whether that’s D/G-League, college, Europe, wherever. Hockey and soccer have multiple leagues, and players on the margins can go to better or worse leagues for varied reasons.

If Jonas wants to be a star in Greece at age 34, OK, have a good life. But if there’s a 26-year-old star in Europe who might contribute to an NBA team, he has to weigh living a good life in a major city vs going to be a player who might not make a playoff rotation. For a converse, ask 3X Chinese Basketball Association MVP Stephon Marbury.

Maybe the existence of things like a 3 on 3 league will help. Maybe the next NBA CBA needs to allow for adding players to the roster much later. (I think the NHL allows it *during* the playoffs?) Maybe there will be less room on rosters in places like Milan or Madrid if more top-100 NBA players decide to pivot to those locales.

If a guy is drafted at 19 and plays through his Bird rights he’d still be 26 and potentially useful to clubs like Partisan or Žalgiris and would have feathered his nest with a second NBA contract.

I don’t think Starbury’s coming back, y’all.

Jetionary | Knicks

11 | 16 hours ago

I’m not really understanding what the “problem” is

WebstersPack

-41 | 19 hours ago

Yes, but Val literally should be out of the league. So the tradeoff might as well fill benches with kids than washed vets.

MainAd2728 | Washington Bullets

27 | 19 hours ago

Val is a good backup lol, do you think he’s Udonis Haslem or what?

StarFox-6 | Timberwolves

-4 | 18 hours ago

Good backup? Bro have you watched him play basketball?

WebstersPack

-5 | 19 hours ago

That’s what the Nuggets thought and he turned out to be unplayable. That also what the Kings thought also and then they wanted to buy him out.

No he is not a good backup. He’s very clearly washed.

greenwhitehell

13 | 18 hours ago

He’s not unplayable lol. Maybe unplayable in the playoffs save for some specific matchups, but half the teams don’t even make the playoffs and for the regular season he’s absolutely a fine backup. Was probably one of the better ones Denver had even, just compare his on-off swings with the backups they had since Hartenstein and Cousins

-xXxMangoxXx- | Raptors

8 | 18 hours ago

He had plenty of small stretches where he was a servicable backup big during the regular season. In the playoffs hes unplayable but you need bodies to get you to the playoffs with a good seed.

xfreesx | Clippers

3 | 19 hours ago

Go in, make 3 dumb fouls, -10 +-, go out. That was last season for Valanciunas

greenwhitehell

10 | 18 hours ago

Valanciunas had nearly a neutral net rating on court for the regular season, and was a -7.8 on-off overall. That might look bad at first glance, but I can assure you that is a stark improvement on some of their previous backup bigs lmao

richmond33 | Celtics

1 | 3 hours ago

No need to rewrite history. Last 2 games of the season, just couple months ago:

JV: 23pt/16 rebs in 32mins vs OKC bench and id say looked like the best player on the floor. Then 16pt/11rebs in 19mins vs Spurs starters without Wemby.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202604100DEN.html https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202604120SAS.html

He’s part of the reason Nugs ended on a 12 game win steak and 54 wins overall.

I think he’s good enough to play in the league still, but needs a team to cover for his weaknesses, which are 1. he’s not very smart and 2. defense in space (which big isnt handicapped at chasing guards around honestly. Only Wemby maybe.)

freshprince44

27 | 19 hours ago

?? teams can pick up undrafted players? if they thought any of them were better, they would be on a roster lol

vets have value beyond the court, and the league already rosters a ton of bad young players that will never be nba quality

WebstersPack

-25 | 19 hours ago

Vals way past his prime and has never been seen as a mentor or glue guy. He was literally getting bought out 2 years ago and flying back to Europe and there are still GMs interested in his zombie services?

The league needs to incentize 2 way players other than these obviously washed vets.

freshprince44

17 | 19 hours ago

or…. maybe these GMs know more than you or I about the situation??

2way guys aren’t good and the vast majority don’t break into the league. Washed vets help teams in a dozen different ways that young 2way guys can’t (film, locker room, practice, travel, dinners/team activities/socializing, coaching on and off the court, etcetera)

why do you care about this so much?

Thiege1 | Knicks

1 | 2 hours ago

this is one weird hill to die on

nicolo_martinez | Knicks

11 | 19 hours ago

are you even vaguely familiar with the NBA? there are hundreds of two-way players, undrafted free agents etc available on the scrap heap and maybe one or two would average 9 and 5 in 13 minutes.

Worluvus | NBA

7 | 19 hours ago

expanding the draft does nothing considering the Knicks decided not to draft anyone this year

PhatYeeter | 76ers

3 | 19 hours ago

Teams have 3 2way slots for undrafted guys

m8bear | Argentina

3 | 18 hours ago

teams can go and scout anyone they want, they aren’t restricted to the draft, that’s how Austin Reaves exists in the league

if they think Val is the best option then they will sign him, I’m not an NBA scout so I guess that the answer is no, there isn’t a college kid somewhere that has the same run

pinkluloyd | Pistons

2 | 17 hours ago

A college kid doesn’t have 10+ years of NBA experience????

WebstersPack

-4 | 13 hours ago

Which means what? Val was unplayable by the time we got to the playoffs. This isn’t a business setting, it’s athletic competition. Either you have it or you don’t. That past two teams that paid Val learned very quickly he doesn’t have it any longer

karl_hungas | Lakers

2 | 16 hours ago

Try educating yourself before sounding like a jackass

MandemModie

2 | 14 hours ago

Buddy you have 1000 posts in two months. Put Reddit down

j450n_1994

1 | 17 hours ago

If there is, he’s been signed/drafted by now.

4r4r4real

1 | 5 hours ago

2nd rounders don’t even get guaranteed contracts. What does expanding the draft do for anyone?

Interesting_Prune513 | Heat

167 | 19 hours ago

Yeah he signed with Zalgiris Kaunas. Now that he’s no longer under NBA contract, it’s 100%, he was just waiting on this. Teams may be interested but he wants to move back home and he’ll tell them no. He wanted to go last year, they convinced him to stay (he was under contract and they didn’t waive him), then ~~barely played~~ the man.

Salty_Helicopter9356 | Nuggets

130 | 19 hours ago

We played him plenty. He just wasn’t any good in the playoffs. Like Jokic he’s a pretty stoned foot defender but unlike Jokic he isn’t a god on offense

tomdawg0022 | Timberwolves

97 | 19 hours ago

He’s 34 and he’s aged a good bit over the past couple of years. He had a good NBA run but it is time for him to enjoy Europe.

Interesting_Prune513 | Heat

19 | 19 hours ago

Well yeah he’s past his best years for sure

tcos17 | Magic

18 | 16 hours ago

I was at the Magic Nuggets game in December that we came back from down 20 or so. I remember being shocked in person how lumbering he looked. Wasn’t a coincidence that the comeback started when he was on the floor.

Which was a stark contrast to a game I went to when he was still on the Raptors and I was impressed how fluid he looked in the post in person.

completelytrustworth | Raptors

19 | 16 hours ago

Prime JV on the Raptors was a slow footed lumbering traffic cone on defense, but on offense could have easily been a ²⁰⁄₁₀ guy on any given night with enough touches

He was just the kind of serviceable center most teams would want until guys like Embiid and Jokic proved how important having a good center is. Steph and Dame had every team convinced that the 5 was less important than ever, so the average center didn’t need to be the most skilled guy. Then the big man MVP era came when the league stopped trying to recreate the prime Steph/Klay warriors and now guys like JV just can’t cut it anymore

cRustea0

2 | 3 hours ago

JV was also quite unfortunate to be drafted in the tail end of the bulky center era (dwight howard type). So when he was drafted its understandable the raptors wanted him to bulk up and he got slower and less mobile. Wonder how his career would have played out if JV didnt bulk up as much

ALotOfLobster

1 | an hour ago

Dwight was not a bulky center. Now someone like Roy Hibbert or Marc Gasol

OUEngineer17 | Nuggets

1 | 5 minutes ago

He may have been useful against the Spurs, but we didn’t get far enough to see that.

Rook2Rook

22 | 19 hours ago

Yep, unless an NBA team decides to claim his contract of $10 million. Which wouldn’t be the oddest thing considering what centers have been getting paid this off-season. I still think that’s an overpay though

Skylightt

5 | 17 hours ago

Would make sense considering he wanted to go back last year and essentially got forced into staying

der_ninong | Lakers

4 | 11 hours ago

or retire, he just got married to taylor swift

Pristine-Pen8063

1 | 14 hours ago

valanciunas getting waived mans he’s def open to nba teams not just europe yet

Briggity_Brak | Tampa Bay Raptors

1 | 10 hours ago

Hahaha, yeah, NBA teams may have interest in him, but he has no interest in them.

ajmcgill | Trail Blazers

954 | 19 hours ago

Didn’t he essentially stay in the NBA against his will last time? I’m assuming he goes to Europe

20BeersDeep | Gran Destino

395 | 19 hours ago

He had an offer to play overseas that he wanted to take, but the nuggets saw him a championship backup and made him fulfill his contractual duties for a year. Nuggets letting him pursue now it appears

lot183 | Rockets

185 | 19 hours ago

I too would like to live in Europe if not for contractual obligations

Fletch71011 | Bulls

-60 | 18 hours ago

If you’re as rich as these guys are your life will be much better in the US.

Edit: lol at the America has no culture idiots, literally has the most immigrants and varied population in the world, you can find every culture from around the world here and the US leads in most world class cities

HouseSublime | Hawks

63 | 17 hours ago

If you’re rich as those guys living just about anywhere with modern amenities will probably be great.

Billis- | Raptors

24 | 17 hours ago

Bum culture in the states in comparison to many places in Europe

gerardguey | Bulls

15 | 17 hours ago

Especially if youre already european

oneandonlyRedSpirit | Suns

2 | 5 hours ago

canadian talking about american culture lmao

Billis- | Raptors

1 | 4 hours ago

Hey I wouldn’t compare Canadian culture to European on many counts either.

BasedGigaChad6969

1 | 14 minutes ago

A lot of Europe is just shitty suburbs just like the US lol, albeit more walkable with much better public transport.

Any-Simple-6570 | Toronto Huskies

-5 | 15 hours ago

Bro talking shit on American culture when he is from an even culture-less nation, Canada

Billis- | Raptors

6 | 12 hours ago

Toronto Huskies? Change your flair you fucking goomba

Cantor_Set_Tripping

3 | 9 hours ago

It feels like the take is more genuine if they’re from Canada themselves

Any-Simple-6570 | Toronto Huskies

-8 | 11 hours ago

Not taking advice from a dude who has a customized reddit avatar

lot183 | Rockets

1 | 17 hours ago

But I am not as rich as these guys, and Europe sounds nice about now

Ordinary-Hopeful

-2 | 13 hours ago

Not from my experience.

Blasto05

1 | 3 hours ago

They’re not letting him pursue a Euro club like it’s a favor to him lol. He’s a clear backup C on a $10mil non guaranteed deal. That’s a pretty easy cut especially when you’re pressed against the apron and trying to resign Watson for ~$25mil.

dystopianrevolt | Heat

48 | 19 hours ago

Can’t call it against his will when he signed a contract.

Kiriegloom | Bulls

77 | 18 hours ago

I believe he originally made an agreement with the Kings to get off the contract faster, then the Nuggets came in and were like “nah we’re trading for bro” so he had no choice

karl_hungas | Lakers

26 | 16 hours ago

Its good you put it in quotes I think that’s exactly how their GM said it

jdorje | Nuggets

13 | 16 hours ago

He never talked about it publicly but it sounded like he didn’t care that much. His agent thought he was just gonna go to Europe and the Kings would be happy to buy him out. But when the Nuggets traded for him that changed. The Nuggets FO updated his contract a bit - I forget the details but the main thing was the guarantee date this summer was a lot earlier.

So now he has his choice basically.

AccelerationFinish

0 | 13 hours ago

What’s he gonna do, say no?

TraanPol | Raptors

325 | 19 hours ago

One more year before you go back to Lithuania big fella

Apprehensive_Oil_484

90 | 19 hours ago

Yes please, come home JV we miss u

LurkerDude0 | Raptors

37 | 19 hours ago

Homecoming

Crispy_Comment9312 | Nuggets

16 | 18 hours ago

The only other NBA team I would be cool with him finishing his career

Pablenzo

-3 | 17 hours ago

He gave so much to you Raptor guys an in 2019 couldn’t eve give him a ring. Embarrassing

beefJeRKy-LB | Lebanon

4 | 18 hours ago

Hes going to Greece lol

Pablenzo

10 | 17 hours ago

Žalgiris is where he’s going ;) he’s superstar in Lithuania !

beefJeRKy-LB | Lebanon

1 | 5 hours ago

Good for him! Last year it was Greece IIRC.

Pablenzo

2 | 5 hours ago

Yes because Žalgiris had not enough money. After not bad season this year Žalgiris finally got some spear money and offered 2mils for his contract. And at his age he would rather go back where his family lives than to Greece;)

Anal_Iverson | Raptors

3 | 18 hours ago

He’s already committed to Zalgiris Kaunas

beefJeRKy-LB | Lebanon

0 | 5 hours ago

Cool I was going off of last year.

JimmerAteMyPasta | Raptors

3 | 13 hours ago

Yws i pray we get JV, just give us one year of nostalgia without thinking too much about it, id watch every game. Where is jose calderon nowadays call him up too

KlayBersk

2 | 8 hours ago

He’s working for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

RudolphsJockStrap | 76ers

2 | 15 hours ago

Raptors reunion all around

demsouls | Raptors

1 | 14 hours ago

We’re basically a colder dryer version of Europe? Haha.

revisioncloud | Thunder

1 | 11 hours ago

Ya ya hey

rbrt13 | Raptors

209 | 19 hours ago

Ok it’s time to bring back all the casualties of the title run to try and win one WITH Kawhi.

Where’s Delon Wright and CJ Miles at?

ustation | Raptors

81 | 19 hours ago

CJ is the Raptors team photographer

Ecureuil02

25 | 19 hours ago

JV can’t pass or shoot the 3. Imagine how excited the power forwards in Toronto were when they got Gasol in 2019 to win chip.

Other_Software_5634

11 | 16 hours ago

He was such a huge part of that run

FindingUsernamesSuck | Raptors

2 | 11 hours ago

I want him to come off the bench only for scoring emergencies.

Give him the ball in the paint, get onr bucket, then try and sub him off before he has to play defense.

mrleakybutthole

1 | 15 hours ago

And DeMar… 🫣

kyle_993 | Raptors

82 | 19 hours ago

He should come back, then we can get rid of TJD and sign Demar.

Important_Ad4176 | Celtics

54 | 17 hours ago

Tim Jardaway Dunior

shangalang69 | Raptors

25 | 15 hours ago

Talen Jorton Ducker

Nugget1765 | Raptors

21 | 14 hours ago

Tondae Jollis Defferson

darkrabbit713 | Bulls

13 | 14 hours ago

Tentavious Jaldwell-Dope

essosinola | Raptors

1 | an hour ago

Tarl Janthony Downs

Skip_To_My_Lou2 | LAL

2 | 19 hours ago

Yall gotta get rid of poetl with that big ah contract

LetsGoLesko8 | Raptors

15 | 19 hours ago

That would imply there is somewhere to send that big ah contract. He’s with us for the long haul, whether we like it (we don’t) or not.

Skip_To_My_Lou2 | LAL

7 | 18 hours ago

Feels like you could dupe the kings in taking it

IamInternationalBig

40 | 19 hours ago

Valanciunas is going to Greece. He didn’t even want to play for the Nuggets last season.

DJFreezyFish | Nuggets

16 | 19 hours ago

Thought I saw he was working on a deal in Lithuania, but yeah, he gone.

BendTheKnee2Stannis | Lakers

9 | 19 hours ago

Why did he?

j_fish5 | Lakers

53 | 19 hours ago

He was under contract, I think he asked for a buyout but Nuggets didn’t budge

jdd32 | Spurs

14 | 19 hours ago

“Could you please pay me to not play for you? Thanks.”

binary_spaniard | Spain

12 | 17 hours ago

A buyout could be him being paid only one dollar. The CBA does not allow other way of getting out of a contract.

R_WeDoingPhrasing | Pistons

16 | 19 hours ago

Contractual obligation, not necessarily by choice

Electronic-Elk8917 | Raptors

6 | 19 hours ago

They didn’t let him out of his contract

Snomankid999 | Lakers

2 | 19 hours ago

10 million dollars was reason plus what 2 million buyout

12 Million to pay behind Jokic for year was reason

Interesting_Prune513 | Heat

7 | 19 hours ago

Zalgiris play in Kaunas, Lithuania, not Greece

Pablenzo

6 | 17 hours ago

Kaunas Žalgiris not Greece mate

Upstairs_Baby8424 | Lakers

26 | 19 hours ago

He can find a vet min somewhere if he wants but he’s basically just a foul machine at this point.

RichAbbreviations966 | Celtics

27 | 19 hours ago

Am I crazy? I could’ve sworn that he signed with a European team a few days ago

Acrobatic_Month2120

31 | 19 hours ago

There was a report that pending NBA exit he would be signing with Lithuanian team

mcrajf | Nuggets

5 | 14 hours ago

He signed with Zalgiris, Lithuanian team. At least that was the news few days ago…

onefootback | Raptors

5 | 19 hours ago

that was yabusele

xFrostyDog | Warriors

2 | 10 hours ago

He’ll be back after next Olympics 🙌 (really though he was a beast in that gold medal game)

Rough_Record9129

18 | 19 hours ago

Raptor

No_Diver_629

16 | 19 hours ago

He was absolutely useless against OKC and Spurs and if Nuggets have any ambitions to beat them, he would be unplayable

DistinctMains

8 | 17 hours ago

Nuggets are done for regardless.

TheFatmanRises | Heat

13 | 19 hours ago

Shams doesn’t have connection with Jonas agent because that mfer going to back to his homeland lol

nbaistheworst

12 | 19 hours ago

The Nuggets’ offseason has been really bad. Watson, Brown and Spencer Jones unsigned, Ty Jones signed but stinks. Bagley will be the backup 5, is that better or worse than Valanciunas? I guess he’s younger, and can make an occasional open three.

djGRAPES | Nuggets

4 | 12 hours ago

Jones and likely Brown will get signed; they just cant put pen to paper until LeBron and PWat get sorted out.

nbaistheworst

1 | 33 minutes ago

Diva doing diva things is holding up a lot of teams.

Aggrokid

3 | 11 hours ago

The Lebron waiting room is tripping up several teams this summer.

Over_Use_8474 | Lakers

10 | 19 hours ago

Denver wasted his time lol

Additional-Ear-6871 | Nuggets

10 | 19 hours ago

Just like LA is wasting Luka’s time?

Over_Use_8474 | Lakers

1 | 16 hours ago

I don’t recall the Lakers forcing Luka to stay after he wanted to leave the NBA lol

MiopTop | Lakers

1 | 10 hours ago

Lakers made the 2nd round without Luka. Nuggets couldn’t beat the hospital Wolves with Jokic…

passiveparrot | Raptors

5 | 19 hours ago

Raptors could do the coolest shit right now

EfkaSerpis | Spurs

6 | 17 hours ago

Yes, Valančiūnas has already signed contract with “Žalgiris” Kaunas, Lithuania. There was only condition, if he was let go by the Nuggets.

The Nuggets are waiwing him today which was already known date before. Now any other team can pick up his 10M dollart contract during the mext 48 hours even against his will. If they don’t, then he can go anywhere ho wants himself. Stay in the Nba for vet minimum or go to Europe, which would be the case.

jak_d_ripr

4 | 19 hours ago

Denver had to convince him to stay in the states last year, unless somethings changed I fully expect him to head back home.

Or, you could come back to Toronto… You can’t be any worse than our current starting centre.

MrRacoon1991

4 | 18 hours ago

I thought i saw he signed with Zalgiris some days ago…

Irri_botz

5 | 17 hours ago

Too young for the Warriors I think

Jonjon428 | Heat

3 | 15 hours ago

Man he was awesome on those Pels teams. Go have fun back home in Lithuania!

OPDBZTO

3 | 18 hours ago

Isn’t he going to play in Europe right?

Full-Committee-2985

3 | 17 hours ago

Please come back to Toronto JV! My biggest lament of the raptors championship is that we had to trade him to do it ;(

SlicedMango | Raptors

3 | 15 hours ago

If JV, DeRozan and Kawhi return to Toronto this season that would be the funniest thing

Dimaaaa | Spurs

3 | 11 hours ago

Huh, I thought he had already signed a deal in Greece?

raven2474life | SAC

2 | 19 hours ago

I loved him on the Kings

lawvert

2 | 18 hours ago

Get ready to learn Lakernese buddy

spinmymeatgently

2 | 18 hours ago

The raptors can do something so funny rn for the season. Please Bobby create the unc squad. INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS

Noodles_Crusher | Raptors

2 | 18 hours ago

BABY COME HOME (Toronto)

ayeno

2 | 17 hours ago

He can finally go back to Europe like he wanted

Hugh_Jankles | DAL

2 | 16 hours ago

Masai rubbing his hands together like Birdman right now

Boring-Community3575

2 | 15 hours ago

The Celtics might regret signing Mitchell

gotpez | Trail Blazers

2 | 14 hours ago

No brainer for us. Yang cannot be played

Only_Luck4055

2 | 13 hours ago

This is kind of unrelated but I don’t want to make a pointless post about it so her it goes - How would Denver fans feel about Demar DeRozan on their team?

klydon24 | Heat

1 | 19 hours ago

I thought he was determined to go back to Europe? What happened with that?

thecrunchcrew | SAS

6 | 19 hours ago

Getting waived kinda helps to that end

BurnerAccountforAss | 76ers

1 | 19 hours ago

I’m down tbh

PlasticSprinkles4677

1 | 19 hours ago

Didn’t he sign for a European team

Dizzy_Jacket_2480 | NBA

1 | 19 hours ago

he’s going to Zalgiris Kaunas

onefootback | Raptors

1 | 19 hours ago

raptors him please

SambaPapi1 | Toronto Huskies

1 | 19 hours ago

Come home, baby.

eArugula

1 | 19 hours ago

I don’t understand why this is news if he already signed to play in Europe a few weeks ago

ContinuingAnyway

1 | 19 hours ago

European Legend Jonas Valanciunas

Ezzy1998 | Pacers

1 | 18 hours ago

All that talk about how the league is fucked now that Jokic has a back up and can rest ended fast lol.

UnderwaterDialect | Raptors

1 | 18 hours ago

Back to TO? Might as well!

JoeMamma_94

1 | 18 hours ago

Was he not good last year?

OstrichDelicious587 | Knicks

1 | 17 hours ago

Welcome to the knicks

PaisaLover | NBA

1 | 12 hours ago

Denver is filling out nicely 👌

FindingUsernamesSuck | Raptors

1 | 11 hours ago

Fuck it

RyverFisher | San Diego Clippers

0 | 19 hours ago

Pwat outcome getting closer by the minute!

Jimmy0034 | Clippers

3 | 19 hours ago

The issue with Pwat that even after they waived Jonas, they would get hit with a tax penalty of $177 million dollars if they signed him a $25 million/year contract

RyverFisher | San Diego Clippers

1 | 19 hours ago

I see two questions that might determine all this, how high can the nuggets offer before entering 2nd, and, can the clippers force that number.

Additional-Ear-6871 | Nuggets

2 | 19 hours ago

Prepare to send over DJJ + Dunn and a 1st/2nd if you want that to happen. You’ll need to take Nnaji too

RyverFisher | San Diego Clippers

1 | 19 hours ago

In a vacuum that makes sense, but in context with 2nd apron considerations and moving pieces with then really bad leverage to avoid it, for the nuggets, I would assume the negotiation would be less than that, however clippers may want to give DJJ/Dunn to shed more salary if they want to get Mathurin as well

Dishavingfun | GSW

0 | 19 hours ago

Memphis could use an another big…

heat_fan_ | Raptors

0 | 19 hours ago

Please one more year with the Raptors come home

Average_Ant_Games

0 | 19 hours ago

Knicks

nico_juro | Nuggets

0 | 18 hours ago

Nuggets are cooked this season. Joker needs to save his career and go elsewhere.

bilyl | Warriors

0 | 16 hours ago

I don’t understand, is he that washed?

TheMoonWasBlue

4 | 15 hours ago

He just didnt work as well as they hoped in Denver, and they needed his salary off the books badly.

twovles31

-3 | 19 hours ago

They probably should have just let him go back to Europe last year like he wanted.

Salty_Helicopter9356 | Nuggets

7 | 19 hours ago

Poor guy, having to honor a contract he signed that paid him $10 million.

Seriously wild to me how many people act like the Nuggets held him hostage

Musa_2050 | Lakers

1 | 19 hours ago

Yep. Instead he got to sit on the bench in the playoffs, poor Jonas.

Usykgoat62 | Lakers

-1 | 19 hours ago

Would have much preferred JV over Looney..

Upstairs_Date2769 | Knicks

-1 | 19 hours ago

Knicks please

Educational-Hunt2683 | Pistons

-3 | 19 hours ago

Such an odd signing and stint. All he wanted was to play in Europe and be with family, and the nuggets pretty much forced him to stay. Any other team could’ve done this and I wouldn’t think too much of it but it’s the fact that it’s the nuggets who have a top 10 center of all time that makes it that more baffling to me.

MonsieurSlotho | Nuggets

10 | 19 hours ago

It’s almost like they wanted a decent backup center for once but that would be weird

Educational-Hunt2683 | Pistons

-1 | 17 hours ago

How’d that work out for ya

Salty_Helicopter9356 | Nuggets

2 | 19 hours ago

Our front office has been perplexing horrendous at providing a backup to Jokic

Chiefgottapiss

3 | 19 hours ago

I’ll take Bagley over stone foot Jonas any day

Salty_Helicopter9356 | Nuggets

2 | 19 hours ago

Idk man. Just someone who can play 8-12 in a playoff game and not be ass

Chiefgottapiss

3 | 19 hours ago

Bagley played the majority of his minutes in Dallas last season at center and put up some great numbers, he’s long, mobile, switchable, nice touch. He was one of the first free agent bigs on my radar after the post season so I’m happy about it.

[Charania] The Denver Nuggets are waiving veteran center Jonas Valanciunas, sources tell ESPN. Valanciunas is expected to receive interest from multiple NBA teams.