Nuggets have to consider their starting lineup during the offseason

If the Nuggets continue with the current starting lineup as the main framework in the next offseason, they still have no chance to win the championship or even the Western Conference champion next year. In order not to waste Jokic's golden period of his career and the team's window period for the championship, the Nuggets management must take action against their starting lineup during the offseason.

If the Nuggets want to start trading to strengthen, the first one who will be attacked will inevitably be Porter Jr. After all, whether it is in terms of help and role to the team or in terms of contracts and salary, he is relatively the one that the Nuggets can abandon. After all, his progress in recent years is still too small and too slow, and the positive help he can provide to the team at many critical moments is relatively limited.

In addition, although his talent and upper limit seem to be very high, judging from his 26-year-old age and his performance on the court, it is obviously difficult for him to truly develop anything. So for reason, the Nuggets should regard him as their number one bargaining chip.

But considering the actual trading value of Porter Jr. and the Nuggets have always expected him, it is obviously difficult to maximize his trading value in the short term. In this case, Aaron Gordon is actually a bit dangerous. After all, in terms of transaction value, he is the biggest one besides Jokic.

Although in terms of importance to the team, his role and performance in recent years have been no less than Murray. But the problem is that the Nuggets now have too few chips with sufficient trading value, so even if the Nuggets don't want to touch him, they may have to touch him in the end. The key is that after this year's playoffs, his trading value is much higher than before.

In this case, it is obviously impossible to rule out that the Nuggets will choose to trade him at the highest point of his trading value. What's more, from the perspective of the Nuggets' management's preferences, Gordon is not only inferior to Murray, but also likely to be inferior to Porter Jr. If Aaron Gordon could move, then Murray obviously did not have to force himself to put on non-selling items. After all, his abilities are still OK from the perspective of overall OTA and adapting to Jokic.

But the problem is that his overall performance in the past three years is actually on a downward trend. Needless to say, in the regular season, just talking about the playoffs, his overall performance in the playoffs this year is actually not as good as last year, and last year is not as good as last year. Referring to the trend he showed and the big contract that he will start to take effect next season, it is difficult for him not to become another representative of the Nuggets' high salary and low energy in the future.

can be between the trust of the Nuggets management in him and the value of his real transaction and the high returns that the Nuggets hope to get in him. The possibility of him being successfully traded is obviously not very high. So do you think the Nuggets will take out a heavyweight player to trade this offseason, or will they continue to choose to hold on? And if there is a big deal, who will they choose to move first?