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While the rest of the league is trying to build a championship basketball team through the draft (Thunder) or trying to buy an NBA Finals team (Heat), the Denver Nuggets are trying to position themselves to keep Carmelo Anthony. Fans with Nuggets tickets for the Pepsi Center may have been frustrated by this postseason’s early exit, but they hope to put together a good enough case in the 2010-2011 season to bring Anthony back when the team is under the cap enough to add a championship piece or two.
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The Nuggets began preserving that cap space by avoiding picking anybody in the 2010 NBA draft. This allows them to sign three free agent rookies at the NBA rock bottom salary to fill out the roster.
Then the Nuggets come into the season with Kenyon Martin likely to exercise his player option, worth $16.8 million. This will come off the books after the season, making him a likely casualty of an expiring contract trade to add pieces at bargain prices. The Nuggets can let him play the entire season in a Nuggets uni and just shed his contract and hope for the best in the draft and free agency in the summer of 2011.
Denver at least has one potential piece in place for the future, Ty Lawson. Lawson is the heir apparent for the starting point guard position. Chauncey Billups is a valuable player, but an expensive piece to the puzzle whose on-the-court excellence is bound to begin diminishing as he enters next season at the age of 34. Lawson has shown flashes of competence in his rookie season, averaging 8.3 points and 3.1 assists in 20 minutes a night.
Put a Lawson with another year under his belt alongside a complete player like Arron Afflalo or an instant scorer in J.R. Smith and the Nuggets future backcourt could be pretty damaging with Anthony scoring from all over the court.
Of course, the Denver Nuggets have only one piece set in the front court, Chris Anderson. Anderson is a great defender and rebounder who could hold down the center position if Nene and his ginormous can be moved. This means the Nuggets have a couple of years to find another big body with some post moves to make a playoff-worthy front court.
Most of this article has been a discussion of the Nuggets after next season. Denver will be playing basketball next year and Nuggets tickets are not lost causes. The Pepsi Center will have a capable roster on hand to compete in the Western Conference. Anthony remains one of the most dynamic scorers in the NBA, Billups is still a Top-10 point, and there is enough fire power off the bench to compete for a lower seed in the postseason.
Next year will also be a year to watch a team motivated to win by the return of George Karl from a cancer that kept him out of the playoffs. The team expressed sincere respect and devotion for him and he is a masterful enough coach to use that to his advantage on the court.
If past performance means anything, there are going to be a lot of bets put down on the chances of the Nuggets going even farther and higher than they did in 2009. All-World player Carmelo Anthony is joined by former NBA champion guard Chauncey Billups and Kenyon Martin, and expectations of massive sales of Denver Nuggets tickets due to a possible championship are very high.
