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1-year contract! After Johns, Jokic will be assisted with sharp shooting. The Nuggets will have a lot of firepower in the new season

8:35pm, 2 July 2025【Basketball】

Previously, the Nuggets sent Porter Jr. and unprotected 32 years to the Nets to get Cameron Johnson.

What can Cameron Johnson bring to the Nuggets?

Explanation point 1: three points. In 340 games in his NBA career so far, Johnson has a three-point percentage of 39.2%, and averaged 2.3 goals per game. With both quality and quantity, Johnson can obviously be summarized into the ranks of the sharpshooter.

Explanation point 2: Ending method. In the 24-25 regular season, the Nuggets made 35.6% of the three-point shots. Obviously, like the projection teams such as the Warriors and Celtics, three-pointers are the main way to end the Nuggets.

To sum up two points, Johnson can bring three points to the Nuggets, thereby enriching the team's main ending tactics. Considering that Porter Jr. doesn't help the Nuggets much - if it were big, it wouldn't be publicly sold last season. Therefore, in my opinion, this transaction only makes no losses.

In addition, according to the NBA China official website, Tim Hardaway Jr. joined the Nuggets with a one-year contract.

Description point: data. In 813 games in his NBA career so far, Hardaway has a three-point percentage of 36.1%, and an average of 2.3 goals per game. Obviously, like Johnson, we can also summarize Hardaway into the ranks of sharpshooters.

Here, congratulations to Jokic for receiving the sharpshooter Hardaway to assist him after Johnson. In addition, I think the Nuggets have a lot of offensive firepower in the new season.

Reason 1: Opportunity. In the 24-25 season, in the Nets and the Pistons, Johnson and Hardaway were the absolute main players. Therefore, the two will still be the main players without much surprise in the new season. Let’s take a step back, even if it is not the main force, this opportunity is guaranteed.

Reason 2: Take over the bid. In the 24-25th quarter, Johnson's takeovers accounted for 40%, and the three-point rate was 40.5%, while Hardaway's two figures were 41.5% and 42.1% respectively. Obviously, both of them have very good recruitment efficiency.

Reason 3: Jokic. In the 24-25 season, Jokic made 1,363 shots, of which 835 were from the opponent within 4 feet of the distance. This shows that as the number one player in the NBA today, Jokic does have super strong ability to attract defense, which is one of them.

Secondly, Jokic converted 10.2 assists per 76.6 passes, of which the assists were second only to Trae Young's 11.6.

Reason 4: That is, combat power. The Nuggets' three-point shooting accounted for 35.6% in the 24-25th quarter, the 23-24th quarter value was 35.3%, and the 22-23th quarter value was 34.2%. Judging from the data, three-pointers in the new season will still be the main way to end the Nuggets.

To sum up the above four points, "full firepower" can be understood as the two sharp shooting opportunities that are guaranteed to be good at taking shots and Jokic's passing attributes. In addition, three-pointers are also a good driving role under the premise that the Nuggets' main finishing method.

Finally, Hardaway only signed a one-year contract and obviously came to "gilded" gold medals. At present, as long as he stays healthy, his characteristics are very suitable for Jokic, and he is still very likely to get what he wants. For the Nuggets management, the trouble is how tomorrow Xia keeps him.