Report: Nuggets' Arthur exercises $7.4M player option

Unsurprisingly, Denver Nuggets forward Darrell Arthur exercised his $7.4-million player option for the 2018-19 season, according to Yahoo Sports' Shams Charania.

The lightly used reserve will play out the final season of the three-year, $23-million contract he signed in 2016. That offseason saw the NBA's salary cap spike dramatically as new television contracts vastly increased the league's basketball-related income, allowing Arthur and other relatively unremarkable rotation-quality talents to reap the benefits of the the financial windfall.

The 30-year-old big man appeared in 19 games last season, averaging 2.8 points and 0.8 rebounds in just over seven minutes of action per appearance.