Nuggets' guard Chucky Atkins realizes that the team could trade him as he figures to be the third point guard on the depth chart when he returns from knee surgery.

"I don't feel like I'm untouchable. They talked about it earlier about me possibly being moved," Atkins said of a discussed deal with Indiana. "I can't sit here and say I'm not going to be traded."

The Nuggets could also deal Atkins, making $3.24 million this season and $3.48 million next ($760,000 guaranteed), in another cost-cutting move to get them under the luxury-tax threshold.

"I'm comfortable with this situation," he said. "Nobody wants to get traded. But given the right situation, of course, who wouldn't? But I'm not even thinking about that. The whole thing is just to get healthy."

Via Rocky Mountain News

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