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Will Barton has been one of the most underrated and under the radar players in the NBA to the average basketball fan over recent years, but he has become a sixth man extraordinaire and quietly one of the better wing players in the league for the Denver Nuggets. He was off to a fast start [...]

Will Barton is going to be out of action for some time. After being carted off the court during the Denver Nuggets’ win over the Phoenix Suns, the swingman had an MRI and was diagnosed with a strained groin, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1054126220923801602] Indefinite timetables are always scary-sounding. This one is no [...]

Will Barton wants to stay with the Denver Nuggets—which makes sense. They helped salvage his career after he came over from the Portland Trail Blazers as part of the Arron Afflalo trade. He’s since morphed into one of the NBA’s most plucky bench contributors, even garnering some Sixth Man of the Year consideration over each [...]

In the wake of a recent trade rumor, Will Barton has declared his allegiance to the Denver Nuggets. Here’s what the 25-year-old said, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: “It’s tough but you hear a lot of stuff going around,” Barton told The Denver Post. “I don’t pay any attention to it, I try not [...]

The NBA trade rumor mill is starting to churn this time of year as disgruntled and underutilized talent around the NBA is being targeted by teams around the league looking for fill specific needs or dump salary. One name that has popped up in recent days is sixth man extraordinaire Will Barton of the Denver [...]

What’s Will Barton worth to the Denver Nuggets? A lot. At least a first-round pick. Probably more, though. As if you needed any other evidence that the Nuggets won the Arron Afflalo trade from 2014-15, here’s Christopher Dempsey of the Denver Post (h/t ProBasketballTalk): Now he’s being praised after a breakout season that landed him [...]

Meet those who will revive the NBA dunk contest. Or something. Sources gave Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes a preview of next Saturday’s dunk-contest lineup, and he was kind enough to share his intel: The field for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest scheduled for Feb. 13 in Toronto is set, according to league sources. The defending champion [...]

Will Barton, the Denver Nuggets sixth man extraordinaire and my personal current selection for sixth man of the year, continued his breakout season Sunday in Denver’s 130-125 loss at home to Pelicans. Barton had a career high 32 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, becoming only the fifth player in the past 30 seasons to [...]