Most people who follow the Denver Nuggets have long been expecting Danilo Gallinari to opt out of the final year of his contract this summer to test the waters of free agency for the first time in his career. For months everything seemed to be pointing in that direction, and so it was little surprise when The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski recently reported that Gallinari had indeed decided to become an unrestricted free agent.
The Nuggets missed their chance to trade Gallinari for any return assets (something I advocated for leading up to this season’s trade deadline), and the high price that Gallinari is likely to command on the market could very well mean he will end up leaving for a different team, with Denver losing him for nothing.