Jonas Valanciunas NEARING a Return + Denver Nuggets Trade Deadline Goals

On the latest episode of Pickaxe and Roll, Ryan Blackburn previews the upcoming Denver Nuggets road trip, including the possibility of Jonas Valanciunas returning from injury in tonight’s game vs the Washington Wizards. Then, Ryan goes over details about Spencer Jones, Denver’s trade deadline goals, and why the repeater tax will impact their plans to keep Peyton Watson.

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7 comments

  2. Like the first trade. No more player options at the end of there contracts. By then half are beat up and not worth it. That needs to be a Team Option. Just dumb. Need to take the league back from the players and do what good for the Team/Fans. Stop with the long 4/5 year contracts. Just can kill a team for years and half of those don't work out because of injuries. 2/3 years is a "Nice Bag" and good for the team.

  4. Ryan. Guys. When you’re trying to trade someone/something, you need to ask yourself this question: “wtf would that other team make this trade”. Right now, what you’re offering, would help DENVER a lot, buuuut, wtf would bulls (for example) do this crap?
    Guys. The truth is this: to get something, you’ll have to give up something. You want to get rid of salary, you’ll have to give up salary. What I mean is, you’ll have to give up someone who makes a lot of money, but has a trade value.

    Now, this will be unpopular, but, hear me out. Trade… Aron Gordon. And I know people are going to yell at me for this, but he’s making 32 mil next year, at 31 years old. Honestly, zeke does almost the same thing for less than 1/4 of his salary.
    Also, cam will have to be moved. Not because he’s a bad player, but because Denver is loaded on the back court. Payton, Braun, Jamal, and can still get Tim jr back for another season.

  5. Thank you for the repeater tax segment, I am way more informed about it after it.👍 So what likely is going to happen is that they are going to gut this team, strip it down to the studs basically next year. So this is the last year that they truly have a shot at winning another ring. That just sucks so much, they have Jokic being as dominant as ever and they have to fill the roster around him with minimum contract guys or "fringe players" all over just to plug a roster spot.

  6. Everyone understands why the Kroenkes don't WANT to spend more money. It's just that most of us don't care about how billionaires justify hoarding their ill gotten wealth.
    When you talk about them having to shell out an extra $200 million for the luxury tax, remember that estimates are that the Nuggets organization runs over a $400 million profit every year.
    There is no "financial pressure" coming down the pipeline, there's just greed ruining the team's ability to build into something great.

  7. first trade is horrible with Jevon and Terry and a 1st round swap (2 borderline unplayable players) even though it´s a salary dump… try to keep the swap and use it to at least get 1 playable player back, we need to retain depth.
    The rest of your trade ideas are fine, a bit of salary dumps and good players in return

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