Katy Winge: Westbrook checking in from Denver pic.twitter.com/p9IVqthTVN Westbrook checking in from Denver pic.twitter.com/p9IVqthTVN — Katy Winge (@katywinge) July 26, 2024 ..read more

Shams Charania: Former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook is signing a two-year, $6.8 million contract with the Denver Nuggets, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Deal has a player option for 2025-26 season. Source: Twitter @ShamsCharania What’s the buzz on Twitter? Ohm Youngmisuk @NotoriousOHM Russell Westbrook is in Denver to sign a two-year deal with the Nuggets, a source confirms. – 3:20 PM Vinny Benedetto @VBenedetto I can confirm Russell Westbrook is joining the Denver Nuggets on a two-year contract worth $6.8 million. Second season is a player option. @ShamsCharania was first. – 3:06 PM ..read more

Shams Charania: Former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook is signing a two-year, $6.8 million contract with the Denver Nuggets, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Deal has a player option for 2025-26 season ..read more

Russell Westbrook is reportedly coming, likely on another two-year deal with a player option, per league sources. Westbrook is perhaps the worst high-volume 3-point shooter in history, and has done well recently to excise all but wide-open corner 3s ..read more

Denver made Caldwell-Pope an offer, but there was a sizable gap in annual salary, sources said. Denver could have tried compensating with a longer deal averaging a little north of Caldwell-Pope’s $15 million player option number — say a 5-year, $90 million contract — but the Magic’s offer might have rendered the conversation moot ..read more

“He plays with the highest of IQs, he’s probably one of my favourite players in the NBA right now, he’s just very underrated,” says Murray, after teaming up with Nembhard for the first time. “He’s very good defensively, he’s very deceptive on both ends of the court. He plays the passing lanes and he’s physical for his size … And he can lead a unit better than people give him credit for. I’m excited to play alongside him ..read more

Carmelo Anthony: “I’m happy. I’m winning. I’m in Denver. We building something, right? We got new powder blue uniforms. Like we popping out there, right? So I don’t want to leave this to go do something that I might regret later down the line. And also at that time, I wasn’t ready to go partner and team up with nobody because I was building my own thing in Denver. So to leave my own thing and go team up with somebody, it probably wouldn’t have worked because we were all young and we all going down our own paths.” Source: YouTube What’s the buzz on Twitter? Ball Don’t Lie @Balldontlie Carmel ..read more

Carmelo Anthony: “In my situation when I was in Denver, we was in the playoffs every year. We was 50 plus wins. Like we was building something in Denver, so I didn’t want to leave. So why take a three-year deal? No, I’m locked into this five-year deal. And it was like five years, like 85 million or something like that. And I got ridiculed for taking a five-year deal. Like, what? You know where I come from? I’m not leaving no money on the table ..read more

Carmelo Anthony: “I’m over here like, whatever y’all going to do, y’all going to do. So I get the call and they say, yo, it’s a lockout coming. Yo, we taking a three-year deal. Right? So let me think about that. Call my agent at the time, which was, I think I was with Bill Duffy at the time and Calvin Andrews, and I’m like, three-year deal? Yo bro, it’s no conversation. I’m staying. I’m taking the 85 million for five years. I’m staying in Denver. I’m happy ..read more

Carmelo Anthony: “I’m happy. I’m winning. I’m in Denver. We building something, right? We got new powder blue uniforms. Like we popping out there, right? So I don’t want to leave this to go do something that I might regret later down the line. And also at that time, I wasn’t ready to go partner and team up with nobody because I was building my own thing in Denver. So to leave my own thing and go team up with somebody, it probably wouldn’t have worked because we were all young and we all going down our own paths ..read more