Nuggets' Braun reaches 5-year, $125M extension

Denver Nuggets defender Christian Braun has agreed to a five-year, $125 cardinal rookie declaration hold with the franchise, cause Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN connected Monday.

Braun, the No. 21 prime successful the 2022 NBA draft, has been a developmental find and occurrence for the Nuggets brass. The Nuggets' apical executives, Ben Tenzer and Jon Wallace, made it a precedence to negociate a caller semipermanent woody to fastener successful Braun arsenic portion of the franchise's halfway moving forward.

Braun became a full-time starter and averaged 15.4 points past season, up from 7.3 points successful 2023-24, portion signaling 5.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 39.7% 3-point shooting per crippled implicit 79 contests (77 starts). He recorded career-highs successful each statistical class past play successful what was a breakout 3rd season.

Braun's maturation astatine shooting defender has been captious to enactment perennial MVP campaigner Nikola Jokic, prima defender Jamal Murray, integral guardant Aaron Gordon and the team's caller acquisition successful Cameron Johnson. Specifically successful transition, Braun provides discourtesy for the Nuggets, starring the NBA successful full fastbreak points past season, according to ESPN Research. He became the archetypal subordinate with astatine slightest 400 accelerated interruption points successful a play since Buddy Hield successful 2018-19.

Braun, 24, was besides portion of the Nuggets' 2023 title team.