“It’s all about making the most of the opportunity you’re given,” he said.
Jon Gold Special to the Arizona Daily Star The assignment was simple, a profile on Aaron Gordon, in the midst of a crucial playoff run for the Denver Nuggets, chronicling how the former Arizona Wildcat had found a home in the Mile High City with his squad on the verge of a championship.
Display your greatness and potential at one level, get drafted by a terrible franchise at the next. Ask any college player, and they’ll tell you they dream of going top five. Then they wake up a half-dozen years later with a shoe deal and no playoff appearances, and they’ll tell you the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
“For me, that’s learning from the great vets we have here and the winning culture we have established here. A lot of guys aren’t in this position, and I feel like I’m extremely blessed. To be able to see what it takes to win a championship is something that will carry with me the rest of my career.”If not by doing, he says, by seeing.
He brings that kind of intensity to practice now with the Nuggets, going up against one of the best rosters in the NBA, full of wily veterans — DeAndre Jordan and Jeff Green — as well as a host of stars in Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. and a cast of young players like Peyton Watson and Christian Braun.
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