DENVER -- With a blue banner commemorating the team's 2023 NBA championship hanging behind him at the Denver Nuggets practice facility, head coach Mike Malone described a sense of urgency for the 2024-25 season, a sentiment shared by star guard Jamal Murray recently during a locker room speech. "He reminds his teammates, don't take this for granted," Malone said during the Nuggets' media day held Thursday. "He goes, 'We have a championship window, not every team has a championship window.
And what do you do? Do you take advantage of that or do you look back in 20 years and have regrets?'" Editor's Picks Jokic's fourth MVP? Expert predictions for every major 2024-25 NBA award 37d ESPN staff Rivalries, returns and Christmas day matchups: NBA games you can't miss in 2024-25 3d ESPN Timberwolves tumble? Nets to the play-in? Win projections for all 30 NBA teams 10h Kevin Pelton Murray, who agreed to a four-year, $208 million maximum contract extension earlier this month, says the entire team needs to approach this season with the right mentality. "The young guys, as we get older, they'll see us [struggle] to win in this league and that it's tough for GMs to create a team like this, that's this talented and that gets along this well off the court as well," said Murray. "So I just said, take advantage of the moment.
We got a chance to do great things, let's make the most of it." And one of the reasons the Nuggets are in a hurry is that they're in the prime of superstar center Nikola.
