🚨Denver Dumps the Bag: MPJ to Brooklyn, Budget-Ball Returns to the Mile High City🤑🏀
Well, well, well — it looks like the Denver Nuggets are doing a little Marie Kondo-ing of their payroll, and guess what didn’t spark joy? Michael Porter Jr. 💸✈️ The man with the $40 million jump shot is being shipped off to Brooklyn with an unprotected 2032 first-round pick (because nothing screams future regret like giving away a pick nine years from now).
In return, the Nuggets snagged Cameron Johnson — aka Diet MPJ with better knees and a lighter salary. Cam’s cap hit is just $21 million next season (a bargain in NBA Monopoly money), which means Denver just dropped financial deadweight like it's going out of style. 📉💰
Tale of the Tape:
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MPJ: 18.2 PPG, 39.5% from 3, $38M+
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CJ: 18.8 PPG, 39% from 3, $21M
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Do the math. One is cheaper and more mobile; the other is... well, in Brooklyn now.
But wait — Denver didn’t stop there. They also brought back Bruce Brown, the guy who actually helped them win something in 2023 (ahem, a ring), on a vet minimum deal. Let’s be honest, that’s grand larceny in cap terms. Brown fits next to Jokic and Murray like guac on a burrito — smooth, satisfying, and worth every cent. 🌯🏆
And if you're wondering who pulled the trigger on all this, it’s Denver’s new front office: Ben Tenzer and Jon Wallace. Nothing says “first day on the job” like flipping your most expensive player into a Costco-brand replacement and calling it cap genius. 💼🧠💣
Cameron Johnson seems hyped though: “I get an opportunity to compete with some of the league's best,” he said. Translation: “I finally escaped the Nets, thank you basketball gods.” 🙌🏀✨
As for MPJ? He takes his snazzy shooting form and elite standing-still defense to a Nets team that now hoards shooters like it's prepping for a 3-point apocalypse. And hey — he leaves Denver as No. 2 on their all-time 3-pointers made list. So, yeah, they’ll light a candle for him. A small one.
With David Adelman now firmly in the coaching seat, JJ Barea joining the sideline staff, and Jokic still being the Serbian Wizard of Efficiency, Denver might be broke but they’re far from broken. 😏🧙♂️
Moral of the story?
Cap space is king, nostalgia is expensive, and unprotected picks in 2032 are going to haunt somebody — just not today.
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