Denver Nuggets rumors: Kenneth Faried to raise his asking price?

Kenneth Faried of the Denver Nuggets is one of the better young big men in the NBA and will soon be looking to cash in on his early success.

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Sean Deveney of Sporting News believes Faried’s recent performance with Team USA in the FIBA World Cup is going to cause him to raise his asking price.

"Jefferson is slated to make $13.7 million next year. He averaged 21.8 points and 10.8 rebounds last year, shooting 50.9 percent from the field. “If they continue to play the way they did in the second half (of last season) and get the ball to Faried more offensively, he is going to put up numbers close to Jefferson’s but he is a much, much better defensive player, too,” the East GM said.Is Faried worth a contract that pays, say, $58 million over four years? Remember that players like Chandler Parsons and Gordon Hayward each got deals starting at $14.7 million. And that Derrick Favors’ extension kicks in this year with Utah, and he is on a four-year, $47 million deal. In that context, a deal starting at about $13 million is fair, or perhaps even low."

Faried isn’t the type of guy that’s going to carry a franchise because he’s not an elite scorer, which could cause the Nuggets to have reservations about giving him a deal like Jefferson.

Faried averaged 13.7 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.9 blocks per game while shooting 54.5% from the free throw line. In his three-year career, the 22nd-overall pick of the first round of the 2011 NBA Draft has gone for 12.1 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.0 assists , 1.0 blocks and 0.9 steals per game while shooting 55.4% from the floor and 64.0% from the charity stripe.

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