Absolutely love him. One of my friends stopped talking basketball with me during his rookie season because every conversation ended up being about him eventually. That said, the rumors around him right now is that he has to ice his knee down for 24 hours after every practice he does. I think we’re still a year away from seeing a team sign him. I’d love to see the Nugs be that team, but I don’t know if our front office is willing to do a gamble like that. If we keep AI, he’s the perfect combo because he gets rid of the two biggest problems AI gives us — undersized and poor defense.

I wanted to love Green. He got ~6 minutes of game play against us while with Portland and looked good. In scrub time for us he looked good. But in the summer league, he looked awful. I don’t blame the Nugs for letting him go.

Speaking of summer league players, can someone tell me where Elton Brown is? Why is he not on our roster?

I’m 100% behind a Livingston signing. If he could get healthy he’d be a great fit next to Iverson … plus he’s young and could have a long term future here. Love the idea of taking a chance on Livingston.

I’m taking a year off from the team.

If the Nuggets were desperate to succeed this season I can see why taking a flier on a risky guy like Marbury might make sense. At this point the number of available experienced talented cheap players is pretty much nil. However, with the Nuggets looking to reign in spending giving a player even just a veteran minimum contract is more than they are willing to do. The fact that players like Elton Brown or even a Shaun Livingston are not signed show how serious they are about spending as little as possible this season (that is in case the Camby trade did not prove it to you in and of itself).

They are going to do their best this season and as we have all discussed, they have enough talent to make the playoffs, but there is no way you can argue that the organization is as committed to winning this year as they were last year. Fortunately, I think next year they will be focused back to winning again.

As far as Marbury the player, I do not think he would be a good fit for this team. (Looking back over his career the only place Marbury was a good fit was Minnesota, but he forced his way out as reportedly he did not like playing in Kevin Garnett’s shadow. ) We have enough shoot first play defense later guys on this roster and Marbury seems to be crazier than any current Nugget, which is saying something.

Honestly, I do not think the Nuggets would do that deal and I doubt Portland would either. If the Nuggets trade AI it will be for financial reasons and that trade only saves them about $900,000. I doubt Portland would throw in their typical $3 million, which is the only way to make it financially palatable for Denver.

People have been tearing him to pieces this offseason, claiming he has openly stated he wants Luol Deng money because he scores more when in fact there is no actual evidence he has said anything of the sort. Think about it though, if you were the best scorer on the team for multiple seasons you would at least want consideration for a big fat multi-year contract. But obviously there is more to scoring in game, and he can have horrible shooting nights. Frankly, though, I think Luol Deng is overrated. A man his size should have a much better FGA%, and he should probably grab more boards.

He is not a great fit for Denver any way you looks at it though. He is never going to a playmaker, which is what we need. He is a high-volume scorer off the bench and it could be a disaster having him and JR competing for minutes; in fact there have been a few articles directly adressing the similarities between JR and BG looking at whether BG even deserves a contract the size of JR’s. And most importantly, there is no way Stan K. would pay BG anything near what he wants. BG certainly won’t be in powder blue any time soon.

Gordon is a big time scorer, but as joshhopp pointed out, he does not do much more than that and is pretty streaky. I think J.R. is not only a more explosive scorer, but he is also a greater all around talent and much more capable of helping in ways other than scoring than Gordon is.

I bet if Gordon was two or three inches taller he would have already been paid.