Free agent big man Jeff Green is leaving the Nets and joining another contender. He’s agreed to a two-year, $10M deal with the Nuggets, agent Jason Glushon informed ESPN’s Malika Andrews (Twitter link).
The deal will include a player option in the second year, Andrews adds. The Nuggets will likely use a portion of their $9.536M mid-level exception to sign Green.
The well-traveled Green has passed through 10 organizations in a career that began in 2007 with the Seattle SuperSonics. Green, who will turn 35 this month, has revived his career after Utah waived him during the 2019-20 season.
He had a successful run with Houston the remainder of that season, including several productive playoff performances. In his lone season with Brooklyn, he averaged 11.0 PPG and 3.9 RPG while making a career-high 41.2% of his 3-point tries in 68 regular-season games, including 38 starts.
Denver also agreed to re-sign JaMychal Green on Monday. That increases the possibility that another one of its free agent big men, Paul Millsap, will sign elsewhere.
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