{"id":3791,"date":"2017-02-12T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2017-02-12T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:43:49","slug":"jusuf-nurkic-traded-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/02\/12\/jusuf-nurkic-traded-portland-trail-blazers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jusuf Nurkic Traded to Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurkiju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jusuf Nurkic<\/a><\/strong>, 22, has been traded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/category\/nuggets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, along with a 2017 first-round pick (via Memphis), to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/category\/trailblazers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> in exchange for center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/plumlma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Plumlee<\/a><\/strong> and a 2018 second-round draft pick. Adrian Wojnarowski of <em>The Vertical<\/em> was broke the news on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources on @TheVertical: Portland sends Denver center Mason Plumlee and &#39;18 2nd-round pick for Jusuf Nurkic and &#39;17 first-rounder (via Griz)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/830845725126885377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jusuf Nurkic Traded to\u00a0Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nurkic has one year left on his contract after this season. Additionally, Nurkic has a non-guaranteed team option to extend his deal through the 2018-19 season. If the option is not exercised, Nurkic would become an unrestricted free agent in the 2018 off-season. The Nuggets traded for Nurkic on draft night, signing him to a four-year rookie deal.<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic is currently in his third year in the association. Capable of providing solid defense and rebounding, Nurkic should step right in as the new starting center for the Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>The 7&#8217;0&#8221; center is averaging about 8.5 points and around six rebounds per game this season. He is also shooting around 50 percent from both the field and the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets, on the other hand, grab another first-round pick and add a solid center in Plumlee. They also clear some more room for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jokicni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/strong> to shine in the frontcourt, as he may be able to play alongside either Plumlee or power forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/farieke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Faried<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nurkic was selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/category\/bulls\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> with the 16th overall pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. Acquired by Denver on draft night, Nurkic spent his first three seasons in the NBA with the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/631562940\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/631562940?et=qx2Io-PASypx69qdNG6YyQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=ue4JjPtp4LTI5GSxSnGXpSqwet9k8ASmE1D_iv_g6NM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jusuf Nurkic traded: The Denver Nuggets center has been dealt, along with a 2017 first-round pick, to the Portland Trail Blazers for Mason Plumlee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":3966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,62,3,23],"tags":[65,108,135,421,96,202,662,184],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuggets","category-nba","category-news","category-trailblazers","tag-basketball","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-jusuf-nurkic","tag-mason-plumlee","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","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\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}