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Would Keeping Valanciunas Be The BEST MOVE The Nuggets Can Make?

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

DNVR Nuggets Harrison Wind & Eric Wedum Break Down the Jonas Valanciunas Saga with Euro Basketball and the Denver Nuggets, and if Jonas Valanciunas will play for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Next Season as Nikola Jokic's Backup. The Denver Nuggets are playing hardball with Jonas Valančiūnas — but is keeping him truly the best move they can make? In this episode, we break down the pros, cons, and behind-the-scenes factors shaping Big Val’s uncertain future in Denver. From potential European offers to locker room fit, we explore what this means for Jokic, the Nuggets' title window, and the new-look front office. Nuggets fans, don’t miss this deep dive into the biggest offseason question still looming. #nba #denvernuggets #nuggets #nikolajokic #jokic #jonasvalanciunas

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0:00.0

All right. So we don't know what's going to happen with Big Val Yonis Valenzhenius. The trade's

0:06.3

going to be completed today. It sounds like for Dario Sharich. Today, July 6th, D-Line is when all those

0:12.2

trades can be completed officially. But we don't know if Big Val is going to be in Denver next season.

0:18.6

We don't know if he is going to be in Greece playing in Athens next year. What are you going to be in Denver next season. We don't know if he's going to be in Greece playing in Athens

0:22.5

next year. What are your high-level thoughts on this? What's you're feeling right now on this

0:28.8

conundrum wearing? We're in quite the conundrum. We are in quite the conundrum. I am met,

0:33.9

I've been met with a lot of my own thoughts. I've been forced fed a lot of other people's

0:38.6

thoughts on this issue, ranging from he's under contract, lock him in the basement to

0:44.3

it's not your place to judge another person's life. Things are bigger than basketball.

0:51.7

The whole litany of obnoxious uh you know signal

0:55.9

flaring comments about how you view the world um i want him to play here but i don't want him to

1:02.4

play here if he doesn't want to play here i mean it's like pretty simple to me um big val was never

1:06.6

a guy that we had on our list of most desirable targets. It just didn't even, because he's under

1:12.8

contract, you know, we're looking at free agency. And frankly, it didn't really seem like there was a

1:18.3

path to get him when the, when Ben Wallace stepped up and created this magical path of getting off

1:23.7

Dario Sharich and into Jonas Valenchunis, which he's a player I've always had an affinity

1:30.3

for me.

1:30.7

I mean, I like him.

1:31.3

He's a, you know, he's a tough guy.

1:33.0

He's not flashy player, but he is a, you know, he's a workman like player.

1:36.6

And he really does feel like exactly what the Nuggets need.

1:40.2

But you're putting this weird position where it's like bro i don't want you to beg i don't want to beg you to come here you know like this is an age this is the age of the nuggets where the

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