Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room:

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Nikola Jokic can put action behind his words this summer.

“I still want to be a Nugget forever,” Jokic said after the Nuggets’ season ended in Minneapolis.

The three-time Most Valuable Player repeated his statement when asked if that meant he would sign a contract extension to stay in Denver when he becomes eligible in early July. Jokic declined the opportunity to sign a three-year extension last summer – for good reason.

“This year, he can add four additional new years, which will take him into his mid-30s,” Spotrac’s Keith Smith told the Denver Gazette on Tuesday morning.

Offering Jokic the super-max extension, worth 35% of the salary cap, is one of the front office’s only no-brainers this offseason.

The total amount of a four-year extension depends on the growth of the salary cap for players like Jokic who are on max contracts.…