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Denver Nuggets Ensure Jonas Valentinus Honors Contract
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7/7/2025
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also a smaller deal to bolster the front court depth behind Nikola Jokic at altitude adding
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Jonas Valanciunas well yesterday the Nuggets made sure that Denver told Jonas Valanciunas his reps
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they expect him to honor his contract to play alongside Nikola Jokic and the rest of the
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Nuggets in 2025-26 as Sham Sharania reported earlier in the week the Greek team not even
00:26
going to try a Greek basketball team pursued Valanciunas as well but they want him there at
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altitude not a guy DRS that elevates the Denver Nuggets or makes the Nuggets more of a contender
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in the Western Conference as we showed you those odds but it was a busy week for Denver trying to
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become that championship contender once again and making sure that in this new era new head coach
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David Adelman that did well with the interim tag and the Nuggets frankly looked like the best test
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perhaps in the Western Conference for Oklahoma City that everybody knows Denver is fully in
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trying to maximize that championship window of Nikola Jokic yeah and yes rightfully should because
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I do like the changes that they made the interesting part here with that Sham Sharani a tweet was
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are there FIBA international rules like I know there are international rules in hockey where you can't
01:16
just like take another player and go to another league probably similar to like FIFA it's like hey you
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know what I play for Real Madrid I'm under five-year contract oh no uh the LA team in MLS offered me
01:27
twice as much I'm just going to leave so it'll be interesting to see how this plays up but the one
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thing that we do know is do you want a basketball player that does not want to be there it doesn't
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work out and whether or not Giannis Valanciunas shows up it doesn't make or break a roster but I'll
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tell you what does a guy that shows up like I'm only here so I don't get fined my ankle hurts my shin
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hurts I can't practice today I'm not I feel sickly for this game tonight in November please just cut
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me and let me go because players can do that and sort of get themselves out of the league where they
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don't want to be there now it's rare because most people want to have a career but Melanchunas made a
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lot of money a long time it's like you know what I just want to go back and play overseas again and be
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done with it that's an interesting one to let it play up like you better show up on time all right I'll show
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up I'm out of shape pay me my money I'll sit here and hopefully at the end of the year you'll cut me or
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sometime during the season and I can just go where I want to go that's interesting to watch it play out
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