Kiszla: After bad $172.5 million bet on bad back of Michael Porter Jr., pressure is on Nuggets exec Tim Connelly to get center Nikola Jokic help

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Kiszla: After bad $172.5 million bet on bad back of Michael Porter Jr., pressure is on Nuggets exec Tim Connelly to get center Nikola Jokic help
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For all his MVP might, Nikola Jokic can’t lift Denver to its first NBA championship while dragging a $172.5 million ball and chain behind him. by markkiszla

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That’s the crazy amount of money Connelly gambled on Porter over the course of a deal that binds him to the Nuggets through 2027, a span that figures to encompass the prime years of Joker’s career. When Jokic recently ate dinner at Connelly’s new home, he teased the Nuggets center: “Where should I put the statue? … Your statue … Without you, there’s no way we can afford this house.”Tim Connelly, president of basketball operations of the Denver Nuggets, is in the press conference at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado on Friday, April 29, 2022.

“You want to do everything and anything you can to ensure you’re putting the best team around him to give him a chance to compete at the highest level,” Connelly said. “I’m both blessed and certainly aware with a player of magnitude what it means to try to ensure he’s got a real chance. I think about it every day. I tell my kids all the time, ‘Mr. Nikola is very important in this household.’”

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