Denver Nuggets Ensure Jonas Valentinus Honors Contract

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00:00also a smaller deal to bolster the front court depth behind Nikola Jokic at altitude adding

00:06Jonas Valanciunas well yesterday the Nuggets made sure that Denver told Jonas Valanciunas his reps

00:13they expect him to honor his contract to play alongside Nikola Jokic and the rest of the

00:19Nuggets in 2025-26 as Sham Sharania reported earlier in the week the Greek team not even

00:26going to try a Greek basketball team pursued Valanciunas as well but they want him there at

00:33altitude not a guy DRS that elevates the Denver Nuggets or makes the Nuggets more of a contender

00:39in the Western Conference as we showed you those odds but it was a busy week for Denver trying to

00:45become that championship contender once again and making sure that in this new era new head coach

00:50David Adelman that did well with the interim tag and the Nuggets frankly looked like the best test

00:56perhaps in the Western Conference for Oklahoma City that everybody knows Denver is fully in

01:01trying to maximize that championship window of Nikola Jokic yeah and yes rightfully should because

01:07I do like the changes that they made the interesting part here with that Sham Sharani a tweet was

01:11are there FIBA international rules like I know there are international rules in hockey where you can't

01:16just like take another player and go to another league probably similar to like FIFA it's like hey you

01:20know what I play for Real Madrid I'm under five-year contract oh no uh the LA team in MLS offered me

01:27twice as much I'm just going to leave so it'll be interesting to see how this plays up but the one

01:31thing that we do know is do you want a basketball player that does not want to be there it doesn't

01:36work out and whether or not Giannis Valanciunas shows up it doesn't make or break a roster but I'll

01:41tell you what does a guy that shows up like I'm only here so I don't get fined my ankle hurts my shin

01:47hurts I can't practice today I'm not I feel sickly for this game tonight in November please just cut

01:53me and let me go because players can do that and sort of get themselves out of the league where they

01:57don't want to be there now it's rare because most people want to have a career but Melanchunas made a

02:01lot of money a long time it's like you know what I just want to go back and play overseas again and be

02:05done with it that's an interesting one to let it play up like you better show up on time all right I'll show

02:10up 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

02:14sometime during the season and I can just go where I want to go that's interesting to watch it play out