What should the Denver Nuggets do with all their cap space?

Spend Now:

Again, the Denver Nuggets have more money available than any team not named the Philadelphia 76ers. That puts them in prime position to steal a restricted free agent or clean up some of the remaining free agents.

The issue? There’s not much left.

In terms of restricted free agents, the only guys that make any sense are Maurice Harkless and Donatas Motiejunas, but even then, those two don’t seem to fit the Nuggets’ plans.

Harkless is a fifth-year small forward who can’t shoot and wouldn’t see a lick of playing time behind Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Will Barton. And while Motiejunas is a more-talented player that seems to fit the Nuggets’ stretch-big-man mold, he’d quickly become just another foreign big in the Nuggets rotation — the worst of the bunch, at that.

For the price that it would take to steal these guys away from their current teams, I can’t imagine Connelly entertaining the idea.

So if they’re going to spend money this offseason, it’s going to be in the unrestricted-free-agency market. But even then … the options are, well, limited.

And that leads us to the second option of spending later …