They don’t add any needle-moving superstars or players expected to alter the the team’s course – because when you have momentum on your side, who would want that?
If the Nuggets – who will be the favorites, as warranted – emerge from what figures again to be a wild, wild west, they’ll have done it without their super glue guy, Bruce Brown. He agreed to a two-year $45 million deal with Indiana Pacers, more than Denver could have paid him after his breakout playoff performance.
But then those Lakers, learning each other still, without the benefit of a training camp or much practice time at all, ran into Denver, the rare NBA team with years of built-in chemistry. So now, with superstars Damian Lillard and James Harden demanding trades from Portland and Philadelphia, respectively, their angsty shadows stretching further as free agency grows longer, Denver Dull has looked great on the Lakers.
But also: Last season’s late pickups propelled the Lakers so far forward, maybe there’s a reasonable benefit of the doubt available for the front office’s evaluations and calculations on Vincent and Prince – as well as small forward Cam Reddish and center Jaxson Hayes, and whoever the third center winds up being?
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