The Best Defender in Europe Just Signed With the Nuggets — Alpha Diallo's Wild Story

Alpha Diallo just signed with the Denver Nuggets — but his path there is one of the wildest in modern basketball. Undrafted out of Providence in 2020, he went to Greece, then France, and built one of the best defensive résumés in EuroLeague history — culminating in the 2025-26 EuroLeague Best Defender award with AS Monaco. Now, six years later, he's back in the NBA, in the same city he grew up in. This is his full story — and why he could be the key defensive piece around Nikola Jokić. 🔔 Subscribe to All Around BBall — where every player gets the story they actually deserve. ⏱️ Chapters (adjust to your final edit) 0:00 Intro 0:50 A Kid From Denver Nobody Wanted 1:45 Providence & the Draft That Never Came 3:00 Exiled to Greece 4:00 The Contract That Vanished 4:40 Building an Empire at Monaco 5:45 The Final Four Heartbreak 6:35 Best Defender in Europe 7:25 The 72-Hour Decision 8:15 Coming Home #NBA #Nuggets #AlphaDiallo #EuroLeague #Jokic