Nuggets Lose Big In 2009 NBA Free Agency

When Dahntay Jones signed with the Indiana Pacers the Nuggets lost more than a below average offensive player who averaged 5.4 points and one assist in the 2008-09 season. Jones, who was with his third team in six seasons, had racked up only thirty-six career starts during his first five years in the NBA.  Jones joined Denver during the 2008 offseason and started seventy games for the second best team in the Western Conference.  He was not a big contributor offensively, but did knock down open shots as well as throw down rim-rattling dunks. Jones fit perfectly with Chauncey Billups' tough guy mindset.  Billups and Nuggets franchise player Carmelo Anthony, both enjoy having the ball in their hands, while Jones preferred playing off-ball. Jones' top quality was his defense.  He usually found him self matched up on the opponent's best perimeter player.  In the playoffs Jones' defense on New Orleans Hornet's superstar Chris Paul was...