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NBA draft: The Nuggets need a shooting guard. Fortunately, this draft is full of them.

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Editor’s note: Second in a series previewing the upcoming NBA draft. Today: shooting guard The Nuggets have a slight advantage as the NBA draft on Nov. 18 creeps closer. At shooting guard, one of Denver’s most pressing needs, there’s actually a fair amount of depth that could be within range with the No. 22 pick.
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Nuggets journal: What clues are there for Denver’s No. 22 pick?

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There are three prevailing schools of thought as to how the Nuggets will utilize their 22nd overall pick in the NBA draft next month. The first, and perhaps most tantalizing, is to trade it. The Nuggets could use it as a sweetener in a deal for an immediate upgrade. The thinking here is that Michael
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Nuggets mock draft tracker: What the national experts predict Denver will do

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The NBA draft is just a month off and the Nuggets have the 22nd overall pick in the draft. Thus, what should they do? The previous two seasons saw Denver carrying top prospects whose stock had dropped due to accidents from Michael Porter Jr. (14th overall in 2018) and Bol Bol (44th at 2019). The
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Why Paul Millsap and Jerami Grant bring needed balance to Nuggets frontcourt

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Paul Millsap cashed in a pull-up jumper from behind the arc. Jerami Grant, seated under the scorer’s table inside the Pepsi Center prepared to check, flashed three fingers on each hand. Seconds later from the quarter of the Nuggets’ preseason finale Thursday night against the Blazers, there was a frontcourt substitution emblematic of a larger
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How the Nuggets discovered Nikola Jokic and turned Denver into the NBA’s fastest-growing market

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The decision-makers in the Denver Nuggets’ front workplace used to play a home game game regarding franchise pillar Nikola Jokic. Had the Nuggets not chosen Jokic with the No. 41 choice in the 2014 draft, a prescient selection that set the basis for this year ’s surprising success, how large, they believed, could he have gone a year after a breakthrough
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