Just a few weeks into the Nuggets’ offseason, an Instagram post by the team’s head strength and conditioning coach, Steve Hess, showed Darrell Arthur already back in the weight room beginning to get his body together to be ready for training camp and the new season a few months from now.
That will be key. A sore left knee was Arthur’s biggest opponent in 2016-17.
Complications from that knee caused him to directly miss 21 games during the season. There were many others where he was dressed but not fully available because of the fear of a setback.