Versatile role player Bruce Brown is getting comfortable ahead of his first season with the Nuggets, writes Ethan Fuller of Basketball News. The swingman signed a two-year, $13.2MM deal with Denver as a free agent this summer.
“[Knowing my role] was huge, because you don’t want to go to a team where it just won’t work, right?” Brown told Fuller. “So I knew coming to Denver — the way they play, it’s a lot of cuts, slips [and] corner threes. And then, they got a lot of guys who know how to play the game of basketball, so the game would be a lot easier.”
Brown hopes to thrive alongside 2021 and 2022 MVP Nikola Jokic, one of the game’s best passers.
“I feel like I’m one of the best cutters in the league,” Brown said. “So I can find open spots. make the game easier for him, knock down corner threes [and] just take some pressure off.”
There’s more out of the Northwest Division:
- The assistant coaches under newly-named Grand Rapids Gold head coach Andre Miller have been announced, per a Nuggets press statement. Denver’s G League affiliate has upgraded Nate Babcock, an assistant coach under Jason Terry in 2021/22, to the role of associate head coach. The team is also adding two new assistants, Jeff Trepagnier and James Fraschilla, to its bench.
- In a new Timberwolves reader mailbag, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic discusses Minnesota’s jumbo-sized All-Star frontcourt tandem of Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert, the health of Anthony Edwards‘s knee, head coach Chris Finch, and more.
- Head of basketball operations Sam Presti addressed a variety of hot Thunder topics during a preseason press conference on Thursday, writes Joe Mussatto of the Oklahoman. Presti spoke about the timeline for star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as he recovers from a left MCL sprain, the team’s decision to sign swingman Luguentz Dort to a lucrative contract extension this summer, his thoughts on draft-and-stash guard Vasilije Micic, and more.
Bbj is baby Thad
TWolves are going nowhere. It’s insane to put all your money. In the same position. It will never work with those two.
Cavs out out 3 7fters. Together they were a +9 per 100 possessions. With Gobert in the post and Towns being able to score on a three tiers AND Edwards and Russell to freelance it can absolutely work.
Alex, you’re Knicks have 17 guards who don’t play defense, I think they are in the better spot.
I don’t know what name should be used for this division but NORTHWEST isn’t it.
Minnesota is not in the Northwest
Oklahoma is not in the Northwest
Denver is not in the Northwest
AND
Utah is not in the Northwest
Will the above teams be relocating?
OR
Will NBA expansion teams be added?
Washington State
Idaho
Montana
British Columbia Canada
Alberta Canada
Will a new division be formed?
And your birth name isn’t Jacksson13. Sometimes a name is used for different purposes than to state a fact. Weird, right? ;-)
How about Pacific, Mountain, Central Time Zones Division?
Nuggets with MPJ having injury issues and coming back to health should start BBJ at the 3 spot.
Would prove to be a solid offensive piece and really good defender. MPJ can work his way back from the bench and give them a go to guy which other teams second units would struggle with