The Denver Nuggets are 18th in ESPN’s “future NBA power rankings.” Is that too bleak of an outlook for a Nikola Jokic team?

The running joke in the Grading The Week offices is that Joe Sakic will have his job forever. And by Joe Sakic, we don’t mean Super Joe. We’re talking about Cyber Joe.

What gives? The Broncos pride themselves on physical and mental grit. And under the brightest lights on Monday night, they had shown none of it.

The Nuggets are signing Cam Whitmore with their last available two-way contract for the upcoming season.

The short version of why Lauren Gardner came home to Altitude after more than seven years on national TV in greater New York — MLB Network, NHL Network, DAZN, you name it — was family.

Tyus Jones and Julian Strawther are slated to be the Nuggets’ most used guards off the bench. Do they have enough depth?

For the Nuggets to contend this season, they need their starters to return to form. Gordon and Braun must prove their injuries are in past.

“Peyton is like my brother,” Aaron Gordon said Sunday. “I’m happy for him, the situation that he’s in. Obviously, we would have loved to have him. But it worked out the way that it should have, that it was supposed to.”