The Nuggets have been gifted a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY...

The Denver Nuggets have just been gifted a golden opportunity from a rival team who just made a big error and now the Nuggets are ready to strike adding a young player with a lot of potential who also is on a cheap contract which obviously ownership will approve of especially after they're purchasing in the Los Angeles Angels but regardless because they are in the second apron and the Kroenke family definitely does not like paying the luxury tax and guys because of all this the Nuggets have now been gifted the perfect opportunity to go get a player who has so much potential so much talent but it's being wasted away in a franchise that does not care about them and now this is where the Nuggets strike and make an under the radar move something that we desperately need right now going into the season and this also helps in another sense because it does also give the Nuggets an opportunity to get a contract off the books that we know they would like to get off the books and guys before we 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not only contractually in the future but also for right now as it does give the Nuggets something that is great next to Nikola Jokic an elite shooter and that is none other than Dalton Connect who has been largely forgotten about up to this point but now things have turned around in a big way and moves like this is the type of stuff that does help you win an NBA championship which obviously we do know that the Nuggets want to do and if you do believe that the Nuggets will win the championship well there's a great opportunity and I do want to thank Kalshi for sponsoring today's video is on Kalshi you're trading directly against other users not the house like traditional sports books you're buying yes or no contracts on the outcome of politics and even the weather and guys one that I am trading on right now is the Denver Nuggets to win the 2027 NBA finals because if you trade $25 on yes against everyone who is trading no you will make $585 on that trade and the Nuggets they have the best 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Kaminga which obviously went nowhere as Kaminga went to Minnesota and Connect is on a 4.2 million dollar salary for the 2026-27 season but it does get bigger than that as at the same time when it loads basically there are only a handful of teams that might make sense for Dalton Connect as Sean Devaney mentioned but the Lakers' big issue is that they have very little draft capital they have three future second rounders and one pick swap to attach to get a team to take Connect the Nuggets don't have too much draft capital either but if they take Connect and if they can also in a subsequent move get a couple bucks off the book all of a sudden they got a chance to do something here Connect is cheap and it's not just this year that he's cheap he's cheap for two seasons and yeah he hasn't showed a bunch I'm not acting like he has but it gives the Nuggets another cheap contract that obviously is helpful for a team that is I mean shelling out more money than any team in the NBA right now on contracts so frankly it does help that area something that is huge for the Nuggets and at the same time he still has a ton of breakout potential look I get it he didn't have a great year last year I'm not sitting here acting like Dalton Connect was so good last year and everyone forgot about him well the Lakers forgot about him too that's the bigger problem is the Lakers forgot about him he only shot 34 percent from three well guess what he didn't play in meaningful minutes and kept getting sent down to the G League so Bronny James could play with his dad that is what happened there this is not on Connect as much as people like to say it is yeah he didn't shoot well and that's his one thing we'll put him on a team like the Nuggets that can always use another shooter get Thoreau Connect out there and all of a sudden watch as that three-point percentage goes up and I get it there's arguments it's not like everyone shoots well in Denver Christian Brown didn't shoot well last season but he's also had seasons where he shot 40 percent from three and he was hurt last year there's a ton of reasons to believe that this move does make perfect sense including with Jake Fisher just mentioning right here that if the Lakers want to make a move that would free up room to add another player bleach reports Jake Fisher mentioned that Bruce Brown would be a possibility they would probably need to make offers both Connect and Hardy or offload a contract like that of Bronny James it's unclear if the Nuggets want to bring back Bruce Brown if they do you bring back Bruce Brown over anything else I mean Cowboy Bruce means so much to this team he's a great leader he's a great vocal leader and at the same time he is still a very effective player he's a very good defender guards multiple positions plays multiple positions and does the dirty work everyone needs a glue guy Bruce Brown is one of the best glue guys in basketball today so I do still think they should bring back Bruce Brown over anything else but also it does give him a move it gives him an opportunity to make some sort of change with that team especially if the Nuggets do plan on getting rid of Cameron Johnson Johnson's got one year left on his deal right now and here is the thing about that when we look at where Cameron Johnson is at overall we do see a who is right now getting 23 million dollars per year so if the Nuggets do decide this is what has to happen they need to move forwards they need to move on well then I like the idea of going elsewhere with Cameron Johnson I mean it's obviously been a move and even still you can't cut all the money away but you can cut a good chunk of it away right now and try to make another move to move on from Cameron Johnson and to really give the Nuggets an actual opportunity to do something that works here and right now that is the thing they don't have a lot of stuff that's been working and frankly Connect fits this team as mentioned by Sleeper Nuggets in 2025 nothing official but there were rumors back then floating around that Denver could trade for Dalton Connect Dalton grew up in Thornton Colorado and played college basketball in northern Colorado for two years should they trade for the hometown kid well I think now is a great opportunity especially because in 2024 before he was drafted he was asked to the best player of all time as I said Kevin Durant but also was asked what the best team of all time was and he did say the Denver Nuggets he also said the team will end in 2025 you know people say that obviously what are you gonna do not say that be a weird answer for an NBA player but at the same time the man is a Nuggets fan he rooted for the Nuggets he grew up in Denver it's one of those guys or not in Denver but grew up in Colorado it's one of those guys who really he does feel like this would be an opportune situation for him going forwards and I really really like the idea of this and I do want to see the Nuggets move forward with trying to find a way to add a guy like Connect moves like this improving on the margins is how teams win NBA championships and right now the Nuggets they are certainly fighting an uphill battle to win a championship it's possible but it will be difficult to pull off so let's go into it what do you guys think I know the video lagged for like a good 15 seconds sorry about that like this video subscribe turn on post notifications have a great day and I'll catch y'all later