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Season snapshot
Elite regular-season results · competitive results younger coreDEN finished 54-28 (0.659) with 6 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 13 players and a rotation-weighted age of 28.6. The team had 2 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 0 future pick-control row(s), and 53.8% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.
Record
54-28
Playoff games
6
Playoff wins
2
Core age
28.6
Primary creator
Jamal Murray
Current decision lanes
Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.12transactions0injuries0rumors1staff changes
TransactionJalen Pickettfree agent exitAug 12, 2026Completed
Departure side derived only from the named completed/reported destination move; evidence status is preserved. Signed from Denver to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
TransactionJonas Valanciunaswaiver exitJul 8, 2026Completed
Roster exit. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
Transaction
Injuries & availability
Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.| Player | Injury | Body part | Out | Returned | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peyton Watson | right contusion | — | Dec 17, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025 | not recorded | — |
| Spencer Jones | right knee contusion | knee | Dec 4, 2025 → Dec 5, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| Bruce Brown | right knee sprain | knee | Nov 29, 2025 → Nov 29, 2025 |
Last observed season rotation
Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.| Player | Role | Strongest functions | Minutes | On/Off | Stab. RAPM | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jamal Murray | — | — | 2,876 | — | — | metrics unavailable |
 Nikola Jokic | — | — | 2,486 | — | — |
On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.
19 of 19 — complete
Basketball functions
Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.CreationThin behind the primary provider
Middle Tier Single Point Dependency · led by Jamal Murray, then Nikola Jokic
Full reading
DEN 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 54.2; largest contributor Jamal Murray (40.4% of above-replacement production); redundancy_risk_if_primary_unavailable.
Defensive event creationCritical need with weak depth
Functional Shortage · led by Nikola Jokic, then Bruce Brown
Full reading
Shot creation
Team performance and shot-creation architecture.DEN ranked 24 of 30 in self-created shot share (43.9%), 4 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 1 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Jamal Murray. Team-level creator attribution: 100.0%. Creation profile: assisted structure heavy; dependency: withheld source overage; shotmaking: two mode elite. Creator concentration is withheld because linked player attempts exceed the team denominator by 4.1%.
Self-created FGA share
43.9%
Self-created eFG
51.7%
Assisted eFG
62.4%
Jamal Murray share
32.8%
Contracts & cap
Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.SupportedTax Team Below First Apron Threshold
Selected player charges
$191.0M
Share of cap
123%
Tax line
$3.07M over
First apron
$4.98M under
Second apron
$16.9M under
DEN 2025-26 carried $190,964,494 of selected player charges (123.5% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was interior_finish at 24.1% of the cap; highest measured need was event_creation. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Future core salary schedule
Upcoming decisions
Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.Jonas Valanciunascontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Jonas Valanciunas has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Jalen Pickettcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Jalen Pickett has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Cameron Johnsoncontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Cameron Johnson has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Julian Strawthercontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Julian Strawther has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Future assets
Draft-control coverage: abstain no future pick control rows. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.No accepted future asset-control rows are governed for this team yet. Asset-control coverage is known to be partial league-wide — this is missing evidence, not an empty cupboard.
Organization
Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.Authority regimeMay 22, 2025 → present
CoverageResolved
withheld: falseresolved team: true
Supporting relations (7)
- gb_state.frontend_team_season_overview_v
- gb_state.team_functional_coverage_v
- gb_state.frontend_team_roster_card_v
- gb_state.team_asset_control_timeline_v
- gb_state.team_roster_decision_calendar_event_v
- gb_organization.role_tenure_assertion
- gb_state.nba_team_decision_feed_at
