Nikola Jokic has won one NBA title with Jamal Murray as his point guard, but how much more scary — and how many more rings might there be — if Jokic played next to Luka Doncic?
Denver tried to trade up to get Doncic on the draft night back in 2018, former Nuggets beat writer turned team employee Mike Singer told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on the Hoop Collective Podcast. Going into the 2018 NBA Draft the Nuggets were high on two players: Doncic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (who ended up being drafted by the Clippers — at the urging of Jerry West, Windhorst notes — at No. 11, three spots in front of where the Nuggets picked).
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