Tyus Jones is re-signing with the Nuggets on a one-year contract. The move gives Denver back a reserve point guard behind Jamal Murray after the team declined Jalen Pickett's option.
Jones made 67 total appearances this past season across Orlando, Dallas and Denver, then appeared in three playoff games with the Nuggets. The report did not specify the terms of the agreement, but the structure points to a short, low-cost addition for a team working with limited room.
Jones and Denver's guard depth
The Nuggets needed another ballhandler once Pickett's option was declined. Jones fills that role with a guard who has long been valued for taking care of the ball and running an offense without stretching possessions.
He is 6 feet 0 inches tall and was selected 24th overall in the 2015 draft. Jones spent his first four seasons in Minnesota and then played four years with Memphis before a season that sent him through Orlando, Dallas and Denver.
Jones' split season numbers
The contradiction in his market value is right in the numbers. Jones averaged 3.0 points, 2.4 assists and 1.1 rebounds in 14.6 minutes per game this past season, while shooting.349 from the field,.292 from three-point range and.778 from the free throw line.
Those totals sit far below his '24/25 line with Phoenix, where he posted 10.2 points, 5.3 assists, 2.4 rebounds and 0.9 steals in 81 games and shot.448/.414/.895 in 26.8 MPG. Denver is betting that the version it saw in the postseason, not the one that moved through three teams, is the one that will hold up in a shorter role.
David Adelman and the postseason fit
Vinny Benedetto of The Denver Gazette said head coach David Adelman is a fan of Jones and liked what he brought to the table in the postseason. Jones made three playoff appearances with the Nuggets, and that brief run appears to have carried real weight in the decision to bring him back.
The deal should stabilize Denver's second unit around Murray, but the exact contract terms remain open. If the expected minimum-salary structure holds, Jones would make about $3.88 million next season while the Nuggets carry a $2.45 million cap hit, a clean way to add experience without changing the core of the roster.
