“I knew people that knew him well, and the way they talked about him just as a person in the room was also part of the reason why we wanted him,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said. “He can really score. He can really play. But having another leader in that room — losing Tim and losing Bruce (Brown), two personalities in our locker room … you have to go find it on the free agency market. With DeMar, that’s one of those things we wanted. A veteran leader. Failed. Succeeded. Been through all of it.”
