After being selected to the All-Rookie Team in 2003, Nenê's career flourished when the Nuggets surged to the top half of the Western Conference. With Carmelo as the dominant scorer, Miller and Billups as the point guards and standing next to Marcus Camby, Nenê had the necessary pieces to succeed.
Considering that he wasn't the go-to person, and he went through multiple injuries and dealt with his cancer scare, Nenê's career statistics with the Nuggets are astonishing.
In posting 12.4 points, 7.0 rebounds, 1.2 steals and just under 1.0 block in his nine-and-a-half seasons (only played one game in one of those seasons because of his knee injury), Nenê currently sits at a seventh-best 555 games, ninth-best 6,688 points, seventh-best 3,859 rebounds, fifth-best 694 steals and ninth-best 504 blocks in franchise history.
The numbers aren't staggering, but Nenê's athleticism and constant knack for contributing on both ends of the floor is indicative of why the Nuggets haven't had a losing season since his rookie year.
