Denver Nuggets offseason: Jokic, Adelman staying, everything else is on the table
"I think everything is gonna be on the table, outside of trading Nikola," said Nuggets president Josh Kroenke.
A first-round exit is not what anyone in Denver envisioned. This was a team some pundits (*sheepishly raises hand*) picked to go to the Finals before the season, a team that entered the playoffs thinking the same thing. Instead, the physicality of the Minnesota matched Denver, the Timberwolves showed more scoring versatility, and that sent the Nuggets packing in the first round.
Now what? Nuggets president Josh Kroenke (son of owner Stan Kroenke) said everything is on the table โ except trading Nikola Jokic or moving on from coach David Adelman. Here is what Kronke said in his postseason press conference, via Bennett Durando of the Denver Post .
"I don't want to be masked in my frustration for how the season ended," Kroenke said. "I think that anybody that was a fan of the Denver Nuggets should be frustrated. And anything that a fan feels, I probably feel a thousand X.
So I think everything is gonna be on the table, outside of trading Nikola... "If we deem running it back the most competitive thing we can do for the roster, that's probably what we're going to be doing," Kroenke said Friday. "So I don't want to put words in my dad's mouth by any means, but he has owned the team for a very long time.