ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith has claimed the Denver Nuggets will not win the 2025-26 NBA Championship. The Denver Nuggets pushed eventual champions Oklahoma City Thunder to seven games in the Western Conference semifinals.
DENVER — The Nuggets’ front office has ensured stability for its championship core. Guard Christian Braun has agreed to a five-year, $125 million rookie contract extension with the Nuggets, according to Shams Charania of ESPN.
It looks like the Denver Nuggets will decide not to sign Peyton Watson to a rookie-scale extension before the NBA deadline on Monday afternoon. According to a report from ESPN's Shams Charania, the Nuggets and Watson will not agree to a new contract extension, and will leave the fourth-year wing set to hit restricted free agency next summer.
Renewing their commitment to pursuing another NBA title in 2025-26, the Denver Nuggets signed guard Christian Braun to a five-year, $125 million rookie contract extension, multiple outlets reported Monday.
Hakeem The Dream, Clyde The Glide, Magic: The NBA has produced some incredible nicknames over the decades. Some, like Magic and Penny, have even come to largely replace the player's actual name.
After being an important member of the team’s bench unit during his first two years in Denver, Braun moved into the starting lineup last season following the departure of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in free agency.
The Denver Nuggets have built a championship-caliber roster around three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, but they still have a very unique group. In today's NBA, most championship contenders are built around a "big three" or superstar duo of some kind, but the Nuggets are much different.
Former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone had quite the roller-coaster season. He led his team to the playoffs, only to be dismissed just days before the regular season ended for a few losses in a row.
The Denver Nuggets could be on the verge of signing Peyton Watson to a new deal before Monday's rookie-scale extension deadline, depending on how a few inner workings end up falling.
The Denver Nuggets don't seem to be trending in the right direction to get a deal done with fourth-year wing Christian Braun before next week's rookie-scale extension deadline.
In the Oklahoma City Thunder's path to an NBA championship last season, they lost just one game combined in the first round and the Western Conference Finals.
The Denver Nuggets went into the 2025 offseason on a mission after suffering two consecutive second-round playoff exits. With three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic leading the charge, the Nuggets have no time to waste while improving the team around him.
The Denver Nuggets wrapped up their preseason efforts with a 3-2 overall record in a five-game slate, that saw its end on Friday night as OKC Thunder wing Ousmane Dieng sunk a buzzer-beater game-winner to take the reigning champions over the edge in their final showing of the preseason.
For the first 24 minutes of Denver’s final preseason game, Nuggets fans were treated to a high-effort, high-scoring performance by their revamped bench.
Aaron Gordon has cemented himself as the Denver Nuggets’ starting power forward over the past few years because of his athleticism and elite finishing, but that’s not all there is to his game.
Three-time MVP winner Nikola Jokic is one of the best players the NBA has ever seen. The Nuggets center’s elite combination of size, scoring and playmaking has allowed him to finish in the top-2 in MVP voting each of the last five years.
It's rare to see a future Hall of Famer willingly take a backup role at the end of his career. That's not the case with Russell Westbrook, who signed with the Sacramento Kings Wednesday for his 18th NBA season.
Everybody knows how important bench pieces are on a winning team. They may not realize that there is a specific archetype of bench player that every elite team needs.
The Denver Nuggets head into the 2025-26 season with familiar aspirations: a 50-plus win campaign, Nikola Jokić in MVP form, and another deep postseason run.