Well technically they did because Nurkic was aids, probably on purpose. I hope they max him. Come with the hot takes but check his actual stats before you do.

Max Nurk

NURK told the crowd this is the most fun he has ever had and that he LOVES playing for Portland

LOLSEADUDE

Nurk got a surprisingly large amount of love from his former teammates after the game.

Yeah that was great opening his heart like that, busting out the L word

Can it be worse than maxing KCP? Doubt it.

NURK GOAT

Portland OU - 45.5
Denver OU - 34.5

Portland just overtook them after being behind for two months.

Imagine what that o/u would've been if they'd had Nurk.

I'm not going to say anything more and let you guys find out for yourselves.

They took our jurrrrbbs! Nurk a Nurk!!!

Although I'm very disappointed that Denver players have not stood up and told Nurk to **** himself after his comments, especially given all the crap he talked.. maybe they deserve to lose.

To be fair, Mason Plumlee didn't play

Exactly they are too nice. Dude literally just threw shade at them a couple minutes prior.

bunch of bums.

Enjoy your capped-out roster and celebration of being the 8th seed after your leader predicted you'd win 50.

Next year 45 wins is attainable.

The Sea dude is particularly salty right now.

In a way, he died a little tonight.

DeadSeaDude

NURK is 22

Have fun paying him with your 140million dollar cap sheet for next year.

Nurk so happy to be at sea level, he'll probably take a hometown discount.

Was this right after NURK said "I hope those guys have a great summer".

Could be maybe that Nurkic knew that he was the man and his teammates knew as well but for some reason upper management was stuffing him beneath Jokic (Serbia-Russian ties aaaaaanybody...?) and all this shade and disrespect is merely directed at the front office...

Before

Maybe, but they literally started him and Jokic went to the bench. I'm not sure what more they could have done... he wasn't good there.

Maybe Malone is a bad coach and treated him poorly, but Nurk did himself no favors by playing like ass. Nurk was collateral damage from a GM drafting too well as weird as it sounds... A similar thing happened in Philly with Nerlens, who btw has performed MUCH better overall.

And let's get real, he hasn't been this special player overall. Two GREAT games, about four VERY BAD ones, and the rest have been decent. Caldo is quick to come in when he plays an awesome game, but he's been quiet when Nurk is :

2-8, 7 rebs, 5 turnovers against Washington
1-8, 8 rebs 4 turnovers against NOP
7-19, 9 rebs 5 turnovers against SAS
4-16, 13 rebs 2 turnovers against LAL

His numbers are a little above average overall, and he gets to play with two guards who demand so much attention.

Somebody tells Jokic there are two sides in basketball. Blazers abused his non-existing defense all game

He can only become GOAT at one side per season. Next year he'll be like Rudy on defense.