Hindsight, as we know, is 20/20, and neither the Utah Jazz or Denver Nuggets have ever entered an NBA Draft with its benefit. Regardless, it must be painful for the Nuggets to reflect on the decisions they made that led to the Jazz’s current path to title contention. They gift-wrapped and personally hand-delivered them their two best players for next-to-nothing in return.
Recently, we’ve been profiling the best trades in Utah Jazz history, and the two moves that we’re discussing in this article have already been covered. Still, it feels almost surreal that the Denver Nuggets drafted both Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell and traded them to the Utah Jazz on draft night for, effectively, a bag of peanuts and some pocket lint.