Will Barton is quietly putting up 13 points per game this season for the Nuggets. Very quietly. Really, extremely, super quietly. I don’t think anyone outside of Denver has noticed, and possibly not even anyone inside of Denver. Even I just assumed he was under 10 ppg on the year, because I never hear ANYTHING about him.
The truth of the matter these days is, if you’re on the Nuggets, and your name is not Nikola Jokic, no one cares. At all. Unless your name is Emmanuel Mudiay, and then people only care because of how bad you suck.
Maybe he needs a change of scenery. Legal weed is all well and good, but I bet being known and appreciated on a national scale would be a lot weller and gooder. Going back to the Blazers probably wouldn’t work; he needs to think different. Is there any way he can regain his college eligibility and dominate some teenagers for Duke or something? That would be sweet. I would pay big bucks to watch him drop 50+ over and over as opponents like Fartblount Baptist College couldn’t even handle him.