Christian Braun Echoes Nikola Jokic’s Sentiment: ‘My Plan Is to Be a Nugget Forever’

Christian Braun #0 of the Denver Nuggets looks on during the game against the Sacramento Kings on April 9, 2025 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

By Avery Torff | Oct 4, 2025 | 9:37 PM |

When Nikola Jokic said on media day that he plans to “be a Nugget forever,” Christian Braun echoed that sentiment in his conversation with Mark Medina of Sportskeeda.

“That has been my whole career. I have wanted to win in one spot,” Braun said. “I played with the same AAU team for seven years. I never switched up my AAU team. I was with my same high school coach my whole career and never switched high schools. I was at Kansas. I thought about leaving Kansas, but I couldn’t do it. I just wanted to be in the same spot.

“You gain a relationship with those people and trust with those people. So that’s who I am as a person. We’ve won here [in 2023]. I know what it takes to win. I know what it takes to win with this group and with this organization. I became really close with a lot of the guys around here. So being a Nugget means a lot to me. That’s part of who I am. I want to be in one spot. … I want to win as a Nugget. I don’t want to win anywhere else. Me winning as a Nugget means more than something somewhere else. Being grateful for the people here drives me to want to win in a Nuggets uniform.”

Braun is eligible for a rookie scale extension, with the deadline to finalize a new deal set for Oct. 20. If no agreement is reached by then, he’ll enter restricted free agency next summer.

Braun, now in his fourth year, said he’s leaving contract talks to his representatives.

“My main priority is to get better as an individual and get better as a team and win. Ultimately if we win, I know that I got to be taken care of.”