It was a very rough season for the Denver Nuggets during the 2015-16 campaign with the team going just 33-49. However, there are some signs of life that have arrived for the Nuggets however with the NBA Draft on June 23. The team has three first-round draft picks and two more in the second round which should allow Denver to rebuild their organization from the bottom up and make it into a playoff contender sooner than later.
It is a Denver team that also doesn’t lose much with free agents so will retain Danilo Gallinari, Will Barton and Emmanuel Mudiay to go with Kenneth Faried in the middle. While the team had several players average in double figures this past season, there simply wasn’t enough for the Nuggets to get into the playoffs in a very difficult Western Conference. Mudiay and Faried need to continue making the next step forward.
The Nuggets have the No. 7, 15 and 19 picks in the draft. There are some experts who believe that California forward Jaylen Brown will be team’s first pick. Brown is a great player but ran into problems with his own attitude in the past. With the picks in the middle of the first round, Denver may look the way of North Carolina forward Brice Johnson along with a foreign player that they can bring along slowly. One way or another, Denver appears to be trending up.