No need to play, the former gunner Lakers is renewed by Denver Nuggets $ 30 million
No need to play any minute of play for Denver Nuggets, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has been renewed by the West team.
According to confirmation from prestigious journalists Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski, defensive expert - throw 3 Caldwell -Pope, agreed on a 2 -year extension contract worth $ 30 million with Denver Nuggets.
In addition to the existing contract, the 29-year-old will stick with Nuggets from now until the end of the 2024-25 season (3 seasons) and pocket the expected amount of 44.3 million US dollars.
Calling Kentavious Caldwell-Pope that has not been required to be renewed by the contract because he has just issued Denver Nugggets from Washington Wizards 3 weeks ago, in the exchange deal around him, Will Barton and Monte Morris.
Realizing that KCP was the perfect piece for the goal of conquering the first championship in the history of the team, the Nugggets leaders immediately offered to extend the contract with the defensive - throwing specialist.
In his career, Caldwell-Pope scored an average of 11.6 points and 3.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists. Besides the strength of the 1-1 defense in the outer round, he has a pretty good throwing rate, especially in the last 3 seasons when he always reaches 38.5% 3pt or more.
Denver Nuggets will be the fourth destination in his career, behind Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers (where he won the championship in 2020) and Washington Wizards.
As the team with the best player NBA for 2 consecutive years - Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets understands that they need more quality satellites to improve competitiveness in the West.
As soon as the 2021-22 season was closed by being eliminated in the first round, the team leaders immediately started finding people. The goal is a defender capable of throwing far and defensive at a fairly level in the outer area.
No name is more perfect than Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who has a relatively cheap salary (more than $ 13 million/season) and only 1 year in the competition.
After 1 week of negotiation, the Denver team leadership reached an agreement with Washington Wizards to take KCP to the Ball Arena Stadium, in exchange for Monte Morris and Will Barton.
Caldwell-Pope's 3-and-D-Dope capabilities are considered by experts to be the perfect piece for Denver Nuggets's squad.
He can help quite a lot in the defense thanks to impressive tactical thinking. In the attack, KCP just chooses the blanks and waited for Nikola Jokic's medium passes to finish.
This style of competition once turned him into an important player in the system of Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, which brought him to the championship. Now the Denver Nuggets coaching committee hopes that Caldwell-Pope will do the same thing.
In -depth statistics of ESPN shows that KCP is in the top 10 of two important sets of indicators on throwing away last season:
__ Top 10 most effective Catch-and-Shoot throwers over the past 2 years with a success rate of more than 41%
__ Top 10 hands throw 3 points when Wide-open* with a success rate of 44.8% in the 2021-22 season
*When completely empty, no person attaches within 1 meter
Thus Denver Nuggets will have a relatively strong player to enter the 2022-23 season. In addition to the current MVP Nikola Jokic, they will welcome the return of defender All-Star Jamal Murray and hand scoring Michael Porter Jr, two important pillars that have had to take care of the past time.
The expert predicts Kentavious Caldwell-Pope will be included in the starting lineup to play next to Murray, both increasing firepower and supporting defense for the new defender to recover serious knee injuries.
