text: Another example of both the desperation and incompetence over at the Pepsi Center. The Nuggets offered themselves up as a sacrificial lamb to enable the Cavs to strength their bloated payroll and to help Indiana avoid losing George for nothing. In return they would get a player who has started to physically break down, whose shooting percentage has fallen to 42% and is owed $73 million over the next three seasons. As the NBA Finals this year demonstrated when an opponent chooses to defend Love he can be reduced to irrelevant to the game. The Nuggets already have that guy in Gallinari. 
  
  It is going to be the crowning achievement of the Connelly era when he hands that stiff Plumlee a $70 million contract - and Nurkic makes the All-Star team. Given the obvious lack of interest by other players in coming to Denver and of other teams in Gallinari I won't be shocked when Connelly signs Gallo to a $100 million plus extension. Regardless - 32 and 50.