Nuggets Daily News

Hoops World Sun, 01/11/2009 11:24 PM

Nugs Trade Samb to Clips

The Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Clippers have agreed to a trade that will send Cheikh Samb and cash considerations to the Clippers in exchange for a conditional future second round pick. Read more...

Denver Nuggets Daily News

Yahoo NBA Tue, 01/06/2009 1:00 AM

Nuggets Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

The Nuggets now have a good chance to get under the luxury-tax threshold by the end of the season. The Nuggets moved potentially slightly under the $71.15 million tax line Monday by trading raw center Cheikh Samb and about $420,000 to the Los Angeles Clippers for a 2015 conditional second-round pick. Denver only gets the pick if it's one of that draft's last five. But the Nuggets likely must make another move to assure being under the tax line since there are some possible player bonuses that could push them back over it. If they get under the tax line, they would receive about $3 million from a league pool. Samb was assigned to the NBA Development League's Colorado 14ers. Read more...