The 2023 champions pushed the Oklahoma City Thunder to seven games this past spring and look even better on paper to begin the 2025-26 season.
Nikola Jokić is still the best basketball player on the planet at age 30. Cameron Johnson doesn’t have the offensive ceiling of Michael Porter Jr., but he may be a better overall fit with his passing and defense. Jamal Murray played some of the best basketball of his career over the final 20 games of the regular season (24.1 points, 5.8 assists, 1.2 steals, 43.8 percent shooting from three).
With a revamped bench that now features Jonas Valančiūnas, Bruce Brown and Tim Hardaway Jr., this is the deepest team that the Denver Nuggets have ever put around Jokić.
This is easily the second-best team in the West that features a three-time MVP with nearly 100 games of playoff experience already in his career.
