NBA Power Rankings: What’s wrong with the Cleveland Cavaliers?

Things for the Denver Nuggets haven’t been great lately. In their last three games they have lost two at home and one game at Utah. They have also been without last year’s analytics-based Rookie of the Year, Nikola Jokic for the last two games as he recovers from a wrist injury. This team really needs to make a move — December 15th is fast approaching and if they aren’t yet, Denver’s phones will be ringing off the hook by then. They have 10 players playing over 20 minutes a night (Will Barton, Wilson Chandler, Kenneth Faried, Danilo Gallinari, Gary Harris, Nikola Jokic, Emmanuel Mudiay, Jamal Murray, Jameer Nelson, and Jusuf Nurkic) and all 10 are scoring over nine points per game. One, if not more, of those names will likely be changing addresses when the trade deadline dust settles. It’s unlikely to be Murray, Jokic or Nurkic so fire up the ESPN Trade Machine and start pumping out crazy deal after crazy deal that allows your favorite team to bring in Gallinari or Barton or whomever on the cheap. At some point the Nuggets will need to try to turn their collection of okay to good pieces into something great. The right general manager can swoop in and get something good for his team from the Nuggets this year.. 7-13. Previous: . Denver Nuggets. 20. team. 73