No Nuggets player has been more motivated to turn his fortunes around this summer than Jusuf Nurkic, whose 2015-16 season was marred by injury and sparse playing time. Nurkic wasted no time in showing just how motivated he was by trimming 35 pounds off of his frame by generally living in the gym during the entire spring and into early summer.
Getting back to the form that landed The Bosnian Beast on the NBA All Rookie second-team two seasons ago is his goal. Exceeding that, really. He recently played with the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in a four-team tournament in Skopje, Macedonia, which essentially was friendly tournament to help those squads prepare for 2017 EuroBasket qualifiers.