It's hard to believe that there was ever a time when Jusuf Nurkiu0107 played over Nikola Jokiu0107 on the Denver Nuggets. The team acquired the draft rights to Nurkiu0107 in 2014, the same year that they drafted Jokiu0107 in the second round. Jokiu0107 didn't make his NBA debut until the following season (2015-16), and it wasn't until the 2016-17 season that Mike Malone benched Nurkiu0107 in favor of Jokiu0107.
Nearly nine years have passed since then, and Jokiu0107 has won three NBA MVP awards, an NBA Finals MVP award, and a championship. Nurkiu0107 did well in Portland for a few seasons after the February 2017 trade, but over the past couple of years, he has struggled.