{"id":148352,"date":"2025-07-01T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=148352"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:40:00","slug":"nuggets-sign-tim-hardaway-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/07\/01\/nuggets-sign-tim-hardaway-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets Sign Multi-Time 6MOY Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing their immaculate offseason, the Denver Nuggets are signing shooting guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hardati02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a>, per ESPN senior insider Shams Charania. He will reportedly join the team on a one-year contract. A multi-time Sixth Man of the Year candidate, Hardaway has rained in over 1,800 3-pointers in his 12-year career.<\/p>\n<p>While playing for the Detroit Pistons last season, Hardaway averaged 11.0 points per game, shooting 36.8 percent from 3.<\/p>\n<h2>Nuggets Sign Tim Hardaway Jr. To 1-Year Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Hardaway\u2019s signing comes on the heels of another important transaction for Denver. Earlier on Tuesday, the Nuggets traded forward-center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/saricda01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dario Saric<\/a> to the Sacramento Kings for center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/v\/valanjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a>. Thus, Hardaway is now set to join Valanciunas in Denver\u2019s restructured second unit. These veterans will also be joined by guard-forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brownbr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Brown Jr.<\/a>, who won a championship with them in 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free agent sharpshooter Tim Hardaway Jr. has agreed to a one-year deal with the Denver Nuggets, sources tell ESPN. Hardaway had a strong season for the Pistons&#8217; resurgent 2024-25 campaign and now Denver officials finalize a deal with Mark Bartelstein of <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrioritySports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PrioritySports<\/a>. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUaslGumBf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XUaslGumBf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1940148162867474700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Nuggets also decided to shake-up their starting lineup.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148357\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148357\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/07\/IMG_7257-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan 10, 2025; Denver, Colorado, USA; Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. (1) on the bench in the second quarter against the Brooklyn Nets at Ball Arena. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a fun twist, the Brooklyn Nets traded 3-and-D forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsca02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Johnson<\/a> to the Mile High, though they took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/portemi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> with them. Like the Brown addition, Johnson\u2019s move is expected to improve the team\u2019s perimeter defense. With that in mind, the Nuggets ranked 25th in opponent\u2019s points per game (116.9) and 22nd in defensive rating (116.0) in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<h3>Tim Hardaway Jr.\u2019s Purpose<\/h3>\n<p>Hardaway\u2019s no defensive savant.<\/p>\n<p>What he does is give the team a professional marksman. Indeed, as Denver was dead last in 3-point attempts (31.9 per game) last season, he\u2019s the type of player they could use. That\u2019s especially true with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strawju01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Strawther<\/a> shooting 34.9 percent in the 2024-25 regular season and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/braunch01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Braun<\/a> shooting 29.6 percent from 3 in the subsequent postseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing their immaculate offseason, the Denver Nuggets are signing shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr., per ESPN senior insider Shams Charania. He will reportedly join the team on a one-year contract. A multi-time Sixth Man of the Year candidate, Hardaway has rained in over 1,800 3-pointers in his 12-year career. While playing for the Detroit Pistons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":148359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1608,62,3],"tags":[4839,1781,167,1223,297,1382,287],"class_list":["post-148352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuggets","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-bruce-brown-jr","tag-cam-johnson","tag-jonas-valanciunas","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-trade","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148360,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148352\/revisions\/148360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}