If ESPN’s Marc Stein is to be believed, young center/power forward Josef Nurkic is on the trading block. The beefy Bosnian has been out of the Denver Nuggets’ rotation for several weeks, during which his minutes have been absorbed by Nikola Jokic and Kenneth Faried. The Nuggets have been on a nice roll, so much so they currently occupy the Western Conference’s eighth seed. In short, Nurkic’s departure is certainly plausible.
That’s all very interesting, but why should fans of the Toronto Raptors care? Players fail all the time. True, but let’s at least consider what he might do in Raptors red.