SAN DIEGO — The luxury of Nuggets training camp this year was the peace of mind they already felt about their starting lineup, even before a minute of practice.
The burden of camp was figuring out how the other variables fit together.
David Adelman has inherited a championship contender from Michael Malone, but he also inherited the baggage of Nikola Jokic’s rest minutes. Denver’s fatal flaw, year over year, is now under new oversight. But with access to a deeper tool bag, too. The Nuggets’ offseason moves have introduced an eagerness, rather than dread, to the process of figuring out their bench.