{"id":50898,"date":"2025-05-23T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50898\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:45:10","slug":"nuggets-add-much-needed-depth-in-3-team-mock-trade-including-jazz-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50898\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets Add Much-Needed Depth in 3-Team Mock Trade Including Jazz, Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Denver Nuggets’ season came to an unfortunate end when they fell to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

It was the second-straight playoff series in which the Nuggets played seven games. It seemed to take its toll, as Jokic sometimes looked tired, and Aaron Gordon suffered a hamstring injury in Game 6.<\/p>\n

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The Nuggets will have to make some choices before pursuing any trades or free agents, as they haven’t decided whether to offer interim General Manager Ben Tenzer the position full-time.<\/p>\n

Nuggets add much-needed depth in 3-team mock trade<\/p>\n

Depth, or lack thereof, was arguably Denver’s biggest issue heading into the postseason. Julian Strawther had moments, but there really weren’t many options head coach David Adelman felt comfortable with putting out on the floor.<\/p>\n

In a mock trade from Jackson Caudell from SI.com’s Atlanta Hawks site<\/a>, he has Denver addressing their lack of depth with a three-team trade.<\/p>\n

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In the trade, the Hawks would receive Collin Sexton from the Utah Jazz and Peyton Watson from the Nuggets. Denver would receive John Collins, Jordan Clarkson, Svi Mykhailiuk, Terance Mann and a slew of second-round draft picks.<\/p>\n

The Jazz would receive Michael Porter Jr., Zeke Nnaji, Dario Saric, Hunter Tyson, the No. 22 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft and a 2031 unprotected first-round pick from the Nuggets.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr.Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Porter Jr.’s shoulder injury really hampered Denver down the stretch, which was the last thing a team with depth issues needed.<\/p>\n

Collins and Clarkson could help the Nuggets, but it would be difficult to play Collins and Gordon together with Jokic. While the Nuggets desperately need a bench scorer, they would likely push to acquire Sexton rather than Clarkson, who will be 33 years old at the start of next season.<\/p>\n

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However, it’s likely that, once the new general manager is in place, they would likely explore Michael Porter Jr.’s trade value across the NBA.<\/p>\n

Nuggets Add Much-Needed Depth in 3-Team Mock Trade Including Jazz, Hawks<\/a> first appeared on Athlon Sports on May 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets’ season came to an unfortunate end when they fell to the Oklahoma City Thunder in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[877,208,7,1585,187,4091,423,6971,914,2131,763,562,6,179,1146,13506,7290,422,427,3972,3582,4714],"class_list":{"0":"post-50898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-aaron-gordon","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-collin-sexton","12":"tag-denver-nuggets","13":"tag-hunter-tyson","14":"tag-jazz","15":"tag-john-collins","16":"tag-jokic","17":"tag-jordan-clarkson","18":"tag-julian-strawther","19":"tag-michael-porter-jr","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","22":"tag-peyton-watson","23":"tag-svi-mykhailiuk","24":"tag-terance-mann","25":"tag-utah","26":"tag-utah-jazz","27":"tag-utahjazz","28":"tag-western-conference-semifinals","29":"tag-zeke-nnaji"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114554386934034229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}