Shams: Kings Trade Jonas Valunciunas to the Nuggets for Dario Saric; *UPDATE* - Trade is Now Official
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Re: Shams: Kings Trade Jonas Valunciunas to the Nuggets for Dario Saric
This is a huge upgrade. Jonas is a starter in this league. It's weird he's in the reserve role when he's one of the few bigs that learned how to shoot it from 3 consistently to keep the defense honest. I know he doesn't provide much as a rim protector but he's still a good player imo. Bad news is for those who don't like load management, I can definitely see Denver giving Jokic nights off when Jonas is your backup C. His numbers PER 36 are really damn good and when he gets starter minutes he always produces as such too. Denver is definitely back in contention
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What the actual **** is the King's doing here?
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Appostis wrote:What the actual **** is the King's doing here?
They saved about $15M

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mkot wrote:Appostis wrote:What the actual **** is the King's doing here?
They saved about $15M
For a second I thought I read they were a second apron team.

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mkot wrote:Appostis wrote:What the actual **** is the King's doing here?
They saved about $15M
And now can afford to sign at least one PG without trading Monk
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So this is what a competent GM looks like folks. Nuggets are back baby let's go! Love it they got space for one more guy.
All in on PWAT taking the next step he's got the mentality for it.
All in on PWAT taking the next step he's got the mentality for it.
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This offseason is nuts.
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Nuggets should go after Big Al
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ILC wrote:
Still under contract right now, article notes a team option not present on Hoopshype. So it's nothing to worry about until at least next summer.
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Is this real? Seems crazy he’d wanna take so much less money to play in Europe when he could compete for a championship this year.
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iggymcfrack wrote:Is this real? Seems crazy he’d wanna take so much less money to play in Europe when he could compete for a championship this year.
He still has a guaranteed deal. Maybe they're trying to sign him in advance? Because yeah, JV is still under contract.
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Well that's a shock to the system if true. Jonas is still a beast and would have other suitors in the NBA if he wanted
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tsherkin wrote:iggymcfrack wrote:Is this real? Seems crazy he’d wanna take so much less money to play in Europe when he could compete for a championship this year.
He still has a guaranteed deal. Maybe they're trying to sign him in advance? Because yeah, JV is still under contract.
Wouldn't that be considered tampering? If he is still under contract, then maybe he's discussing a buy-out, because the Nuggets would have to release him first.
Handlez wrote:Cooper is being guarded like it's the NBA finals game 7.
Everyone else faced with far less tenacity.
Same thing that's happening to Caitlin Clark.
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MakeItSplash wrote:tsherkin wrote:iggymcfrack wrote:Is this real? Seems crazy he’d wanna take so much less money to play in Europe when he could compete for a championship this year.
He still has a guaranteed deal. Maybe they're trying to sign him in advance? Because yeah, JV is still under contract.
Wouldn't that be considered tampering? If he is still under contract, then maybe he's discussing a buy-out, because the Nuggets would have to release him first.
Yeah. We're going to need more information. Denver still has to agree with this, and it feels weird that they'd pull the trigger on a trade and JV wouldn't have said anything beforehand about trying to get signed overseas.
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Very strange news
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iggymcfrack wrote:Is this real? Seems crazy he’d wanna take so much less money to play in Europe when he could compete for a championship this year.
He's not taking less money, salaries in Europe are after taxes, 4M Euro net is close or more than what he'd make in DEN.
Also, it's not not crazt to take leas and live where you want.
Defense wins draft lotteries!
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If he leaves the Nuggets absolutely need to throw every dollar they have available at Horford. Honestly they should’ve just done that in the first place IMO.