So there’s this player. He’s only 23 years old, a lanky, leaping 6-foot-11 pogo stick who can seemingly touch this high ceiling everyone talks about him having the potential to reach.

Then there’s this player who has been on four NBA teams since 2008, arguably a vagabond bust, cursed by his potential.

Well, it’s the same dude. Anthony Randolph is a Nugget now. The team took a gamble on the big man this summer, hoping he’s more potential than unfulfilled potential.

Randolph showed, at least for one night, that he can make an above-the-rim impact.

“We have to find talented players that are maybe forgotten about and need a chance, and we saw him that way,” Nuggets executive Masai Ujiri said

via Benjamin Hochman of The Denver Post