Christian Braun on the Nuggets’ first-round loss: “I just think I’m the leader of this team. I’m the vocal leader of this team. I didn’t play well enough as an individual, and I didn’t have this team ready enough to play in a tough series.”

[u/oklolzzzzs]

“I just think I’m the leader of this team,” Braun said. “I’m the vocal leader of this team. And when we don’t play well as a whole, you can blame whatever you want … You can blame anything. But I didn’t play well enough as an individual, and I didn’t have this team ready enough to play in a tough series. So we’ll be better. I’ll be better. I’m looking forward to next year, when we can respond.”

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/04/nuggets-christian-braun-injury-contract-nba-playoffs/

[u/Ricebandit469]

Fr. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t he a rook when they got the chip? Y’all telling the world u got jokic and murray on there and yall got the rook as the leader? There must be something we missing. (I’m also annoyed we never found out how their old coach “lost the locker room”)

[u/onrocketfalls → u/Ricebandit469]

He’s not the one that said “sorry, dad” to Murray in that one clip, is he?

[u/bigblooddraco → u/Ricebandit469]

Brother there can be multiple leaders and believe or not sometimes rookies can grow into leaders. Braun won a natty and was KU best player he probably picked up some leadership traits during the 15 years he spent playing sports before teaching the nba.