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Michael Porter Jr. believes the Denver Nuggets could be due for major roster turnover if the team falls short of the 2025 NBA title.

“If we don’t win it this year, we all know they might have to break it up,” Porter told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne.

The Nuggets are looking to capitalize on a tenth season led by reigning MVP Nikola Jokić, who is averaging a league-high 31.5 points through four games.

Jokić and the Nuggets are set to play the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night in a rematch of the second-round series Denver lost in seven games this May.

Denver has yet to win in regulation this season and required overtime to claim consecutive wins over the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets earlier this week.

The Nuggets are still adjusting to the departure of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, a key part of the team’s 2023 championship roster who signed a three-year deal with the Orlando Magic in free agency.

Denver also gave up draft capital in order to move former sixth man Reggie Jackson and his $5.25 million player option, a trade that alongside Christian Braun’s transition into the startling lineup thinned the team’s bench depth.

In addition to the previous exits of Bruce Brown and Jeff Green, the Nuggets are now missing multiple role players who contributed to the 2023 championship run.

The Nuggets’ biggest moves of the offseason were adding veteran guard Russell Westbrook and giving both Aaron Gordon and Jamal Murray extensions.

Denver is currently about $5 million below the second tax apron, below which they are hard-capped, per Spotrac. That has limited the team’s ability to build around Murray and Jokić as they look to construct another title contender.

Jokić, who turns 30 this February, is currently signed through the 2026-27 season with a player option for 2027-28.

The Nuggets may have locked in Jokić alongside Murray, Porter and Gordon for at least the next two seasons, but it sounds like Porter is expecting that core to be broken up should Denver exit the playoffs early for the second straight season.