{"id":820174,"date":"2026-08-25T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820174\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:45:13","slug":"lnn-demar-derozans-best-skill-for-denver-nuggets-isnt-what-you-would-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820174\/","title":{"rendered":"LNN: DeMar DeRozan&#8217;s best skill for Denver Nuggets isn&#8217;t what you would expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Denver Nuggets added DeMar DeRozan to their team last week, fans knew they were getting a veteran scorer capable of getting buckets on the wing. What they may not have known about was DeRozan\u2019s secret elite trait: availability.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Blackburn explains why DeRozan\u2019s consistency and durability is the most important skill the Nuggets need on the latest installment of Late Night Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LNN: DeMar DeRozan\u2019s most valuable skill for the Denver Nuggets is not what you think it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VUW9K4XZq1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VUW9K4XZq1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBABlackburn\/status\/2092084568639615270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Denver Nuggets added DeMar DeRozan to their team last week, fans knew they were getting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[89683,7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":["post-820174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-nuggets","tag-2026-nba-offseason","tag-basketball","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denvernuggets","tag-nba","tag-nuggets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117155746507966007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820174","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=820174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}