Bruce Brown is heading back to the Mile High City.
The former champion has reportedly agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Denver Nuggets, per ESPN's Shams Charania on Monday.
Brown was part of the Nuggets squad that won the franchise's first championship in 2023. After that title-winning campaign, the swingman earned himself a payday in the form of $22.5 million annually over two years from the Indiana Pacers.
Since he departed from Denver, however, neither side has quite recaptured the success they had together. The Nuggets, while winning 57 and 50 games in the two seasons since, have been bounced in the West Semis in back-to-back seasons. Meanwhile, Brown has been moved twice — from the Pacers to the Raptors for Pascal Siakam, and then he was flipped out of Toronto at this year's trade deadline for Brandon Ingram.
He played a total of 41 games last season between the Raptors and New Orleans Pelicans, missing time to start the season while recovering from off-season knee surgery. He averaged 8.3 points 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists while shooting 33.3 per cent from beyond the arc in that span.
Brown will now get to re-join Nikola Jokic and co., the team with which the 28-year-old averaged a career-high 11.5 points and 4.5 field goal makes per game.
Meanwhile, acquiring Brown was the second-biggest move of the early hours of free agency by the Nuggets after they swapped Michael Porter Jr. and a unprotected 2032 first to the Brooklyn Nets for two-way wing Cam Johnson.
