The Denver Nuggets released forward Kostas Papanikolaou before the January 10th date where his contract would have become guaranteed as Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
By releasing the versatile forward, Denver clears Papanikolaou’s full $4.8 million salary for 2015-16.
The move not only saves money, but is a showing of the Nuggets finally getting healthy. As Gallinari has returned from his ankle injury; Mudiay nears the same task. In addition, the Bosnian Beast, Jusuf Nurkiu0107, too has come back to getting healthy with his minutes increasing the past two games.
With Papanikolaou being waived, the Nuggets will move towards Mudiay and Nelson running the point guard position, Harris and Foye at the two, and the high scoring Barton moving over from shooting guard to play more small forward behind Gallinari.