So now what? Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr., Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic are each championship-caliber starters when healthy. Malone and his staff must decide on a fifth. “All I’ll say is that it’s great to have options,” he said after the Nuggets finished practice. “We have a healthy team, and obviously, Russell Westbrook’s done great things for us. Christian Braun, this last eight-game stretch, is playing just incredible basketball. And so people say, ‘Oh, that’s a tough decision.’ I look at it the opposite way. I’m really fortunate to have a tough decision to make where you have quality players that have really impacted winning. And that’s what it comes down to. It’s never about one player. It’s about what’s best for our team.”
by Hoops Hype