Why Denver Nuggets MUST TRADE Jamal Murray or Michael Porter Jr. to help Jokic | Colin Cowherd NBA
Colin Cowherd is joined by Jason Timpf to react to the Oklahoma City Thunder beating the Denver Nuggets in Game 7 to advance to the Western Conference Finals. They give their takes on the game and which players the Nuggets should try to trade this offseason to build a better team around Nikola Jokic. Should the Nuggets trade Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr.?
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25 Comments
Big mistake to trade Murray. It is still the best 2 man game in the league. What Denver needs is a bench of high quality
I mean MPJ didn't earn hardly any of his money. I think I've seen enough with him not being 100% healthy. We dont have no more time to waste with Joker in his prime. We gotta go for consistency and Defence type players.
Nuggets need to do their best to trade Murray, MPJ, Nnaji, and Saric. Those four players will combine to make 100 million next year and they are all massively overpaid. Denver doesn't need equal value for them, they just need to free up cap space to sign better players. I would almost give them away at this point just to get those ridiculous contracts off the books.
Man stop playing. Yāall shat yourself over minnesotas āgenerational defenseā on the nuggets last year. Then they fell apart against the mavs who were as athletic and just could handle getting hacked and fouled. Nuggets were fine if yall clowns would just call it what it is. Thunder were mugging them. Thunder were incredibly less skilled than the nuggets. They just foul more. Same as Minnesota last year. Now watch the wolves might be able to handle the fouling against thunder.
Upgrade from MPJ, improve the bench and run it back if you're Denver
I thought it was only LeBron who needed more help.
The Brain 30m a year contract didnāt help either smh
Move Jamal Murray for Zach Lavine it would be similar to moving Kat for Randle
Jason McConaughey
Jokic needs more help. Any other NBA team has at least two stars and Jokic is doing it all in his team. And the bench isnāt good enough.
Do anyone else thinks Collin favors Jack Nicholson around the mouth?š Especially when he played in the Shining . "Here's Johnny!"š
MPJ is trash, trade is ass. Murray might has well not even showed up to the arena in game 7, trade is ass! Hold on to Joker, Gordon, and Braun. Everyone else kick rocks bunch of absolute trash.
MPJ sucks. No one is going to want his max contract. Murray's contract is equally bad. Those contracts ruined the team
What team would want mpj? He is grossly over paid and under skilled. Murry is about as hit and miss as possible but maybe someone might want to take the gamble. He is also grossly overpaid and injury prone. Neither are desirable
Murray is trash, they should have traded him right after championship when ppl thought he was a great player, now everyone knows he is trash and with that four year $200 contract, he may be untradable. Porter was bad this playoffs but he never got chance to be a number two and get 20 shots a game on a regular basis
I partially agree. Replace MPJ w/ a defensive minded forward and bring back Bruce Brown. I think the Nuggets still need 1 big offensive star to match with Jokic and Murray. I like James Harden. Harden would be more of a role player so perhaps he will play better in the playoffs. The Nuggets would have Braun, Brown and Watson off the bench. It will solve the depth issues so the main guys will be more rested come playoff time.
Jason is wrong. Murray has got to go. The "continuity" value of keeping Murray just doesn't factor when you have Jokic who is your point guard anyway. They simply need 3 and D guys all around Jokic.
And. Trade both of them.
Denver canāt be the spurs Jokic doesnāt play defense like Duncan did. He was elite. If you look at dynasties they had elite 2 way players
You think they get what for Drew Holiday if they call Dallas?
Trey Murphy III would be a great replacement for mpj
Denver only needs a herb jones type of forward and a good back up center and they're back in the championship ships. Watson was strong and sound enough. Watch they get Bruce brown back and get herb.
"Caruso on Jokic." I think you meant to say, Caruso fouling Jokic. But, yes, MPJ probably needs to move on.
All the bozos insisting Murray and MPJ need to be traded are idiots. The Bucks don't get this much pushback with Dame being out. The Celtics lose Jayson Tatum and that turns the tide in that series. Nuggets 1st round pick to injury before the season starts, Murray plays as sick as a dog, MPJ has a shoulder injury which is probably worse than we know, AG has a hamstring injury, Nuggets lose HC and GM near season's end, push the #1 seed to 7 – games and all you guys can do is come up with this ? Keep in mind MPJ was looked upon as a huge gamble when he was drafted by the Nuggets that had people scratching their heads, and it turned out to be a great pick. He was fortunate to be able to play competitive basketball again and people want to dog him out. How many titles did the Jazz, Thunder, Magic, or Suns win with multiple All-Stars playing together ? They say this same crap about the Detroit Pistons. You do not trade either one of them.
Jamal is going to be paid more than Luka next yearā¦ā¦