In the locker room after the Nuggets’ last game of the season, Mason Plumlee ate a post-game meal and looked forward to being able to obtain one thing right off the top: His clothes.
“They’re in Portland,” he said, grinning. “In a storage unit.”
Plumlee had “been living out of the same bag for two months.”
The hidden aspects of mid-season trades are contained in things no one thinks about. Plumlee arrived in Denver on Feb. 13, part of a pre-trade deadline deal that sent center Jusuf Nurkic to Portland.
“Because when they trade for you they’re like ‘can you be here tonight?