2017 NBA Draft: How Markelle Fultz would impact every lottery team
By Max Holm
Denver Nuggets – 0.6% Chance of Winning Lottery
Can you imagine the Denver Nuggets discovering Nikola Jokic and then getting Fultz? I don’t know if that would be a cruel joke or destiny.
Denver seemed poised for the playoffs until Portland caught fire at the end of the year. If Jokic can get even better, they’re a strong bet to make the postseason next year, but Fultz isn’t about the postseason. Adding Fultz would bring back the dope, top-seeded Nuggets of the mid-2000s.
Drafting Fultz would probably see the writing on the wall for Emmanuel Mudiay, who has failed to seize the moment without any real competition at point guard. Denver became a league-pass favorite last year and would now become a league-wide favorite.
Their potential core of Jokic, Fultz, Gary Harris, Jamal Murray, and Danilo Gallinari would be to die for. Get ready for mystifying fast breaks and unreal passing. It might take the Nuggets a year or two, but drafting Fultz would complete the puzzle in the Mile High City. They’d easily become an offensive juggernaut.