MARCH 5: The Nuggets have officially signed Daniels, the team announced today in a press release.
MARCH 4: Denver is finalizing a deal with former Lakers guard Troy Daniels, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Daniels was waived by L.A. on Sunday night after he and his agent, Mark Bartelstein, worked out a deal with the team. He cleared waivers earlier today. Daniels is a career 39.7% shooter from 3-point range and will give the Nuggets another deep threat off the bench. He will be eligible for the playoffs because he was waived by the March 1 deadline.
Denver was able to sign Daniels with the money it saved when Jordan McRae was claimed by the Pistons, notes Bobby Marks of ESPN (Twitter link). Daniels will make $481K over the rest of the season and the Nuggets will have a $385K cap hit. That salary is in addition to the $2MM he receives from the Lakers.
Daniels averaged 4.2 PPG in 41 games with the Lakers after signing a minimum-salary contract last summer. Denver will be his seventh team in a seven-year career.
Bad players, can’t defend and not clutch.
Yep, Daniels is definitely a 3 and no-D player.
Not a 3 guy this year either, he had opportunities and missed too many. It’s too bad cuz he’s a genuinely nice young man, good team mate, doesn’t complain. Just needs to relocate his shot. I wish him the best.
Denver drafted for offense, then the past couple of years Malone has pushed hard for defense. This move suggests the FO thinks they may have gone too far, and are looking to adjust, since Daniels is a shooting/specialist type.
Some experts are not taking the Nuggets seriously (i.e., Marc Stein) and this would be annoying to the FO.
Daniels wouldn’t be in the league if not for 5-10 great minutes of basketball…6-7 years ago in the playoffs lol.
Lakers signed him to be a 3pt specialist.. averaged 40% from 3 for career.. comes to lakers and shoots 35%.. 5% doesn’t seem like much but in this case and defensive liability, cost him his job.. Pretty standard though.. case of a player lighting it up for bad teams
I don’t like to hate on any artist but Daniels over Tyler Johnson. GTFOH