Nuggets Executives Reveal Free Agency, Trade Plans After NBA Draft

Denver's new executives, executive vice president of basketball operations Ben Tenzer and executive vice president of player personnel Jon Wallace, say that they will focus more on free agency than trades.

"We're always going to be aggressive looking at everything, but I would say we're probably going to focus more on free agency than trades," Tenzer said. Then, when asked about what they're looking for, Wallace answered, "Bench depth. Said it before, get some more scoring in the second unit. Shooting, obviously, is one of the needs. If we can, find better point of attack defenders."

This comes on the heels of Nikola Jokic saying the team needed to add more depth. As he said, "The ones who have longer benches and rotations are the ones who are winning.” And that was seen in the NBA Finals, as the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers were both teams who could go 11 deep on any given night.

The big issue is, the Nuggets don't have much financial flexibility, especially after Dario Saric picked up his player option. They're a million over the first apron and about $10 million below the second apron, but they still have three roster spots to fill. They may have to make a trade for financial reasons before they start signing players.

Russell Westbrook is always an option to return after declining his player option, but he'll test his options in free agency. It'll be tough for them to significantly upgrade this roster around Jokic with how they're currently set up.