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More on Wilson Chandler’s decision to sign with the Nuggets
So it seems, the second-favorite team of Denver basketball fans is – whatever team is playing Zhejiang Guangsha.
Wilson Chandler expects to sign with the Nuggets when his season ends with Zhejiang Guangsha — agent Chris Luchey confirmed on Wednesday night – but he can’t leave China any time sooner. Right now, his squad is 16-13 but not guaranteed a playoff spot with six...
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3 days ago
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Guess who will likely start for the Nuggets tonight?
For the first time since 2008-09, Nuggets center Chris Andersen will likely start a game. The Birdman practiced with the first team this morning at shootaround and coach George Karl suggested the big man could start against defending-champ Dallas tonight at Pepsi Center.
Starting center Timofey Mozgov remains out with a lefty ankle sprain.
Andersen is coming off a big game against...
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4 days ago
More injury updates for depleted Nuggets
News came out today that it’s possible Danilo Gallinari (ankle) could miss up to a month. But heading into Wednesday’s game against Dallas, guard Arron Afflalo (ankle, toe) is expected to return for the Nuggets, while big man Nene (heel) is a game-time decision.
Center Timofey Mozgov (ankle) is likely out for this week. He is out of his walking boot and is improving.
Guard Rudy...
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5 days ago
Like many NBA teams, the Nuggets are tired … just in time for a back-to-back
“I know my team was tired tonight,” George Karl said Monday. “There’s no question of the residual effect of the three games in a row.”
The Nuggets lost to Houston, 99-90, their fourth game in five days. After the back-to-back-to-back – which involved two separate trips – the Nuggets clearly weren’t the Nuggets on Monday.
“I don’t have my legs under me,” said...
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5 days ago
Nuggets loss at Portland damaging in more than just win-loss column
Say one thing about this shortened season in which you play most teams in the same division just three times: It takes the guesswork out of tiebreakers.
Win two, and you own it.
As such, the Nuggets’ loss to the Trail Blazers on Saturday night had sting beyond the final score. Portland earned the tiebreaker over the Nuggets, meaning the boys in powder blue are going to have to...
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6 days ago
Nuggets PG Andre Miller: The NBA’s most unsung Ironman
Tonight, Andre Miller ties Stacey Augmon on the NBA’s most games played list. Yep, Stacey Augmon, at 1,001 games played at the highest level of basketball in the world. He’s 97th in NBA history.
I must admit I was 1) kind of surprised that Stacey Augmon had even played over 1,000 games in the NBA; and 2) That there are now 100 players in the history of the league to reach the...
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9 days ago
Three reasons why the Nuggets’ win over the Clippers really mattered
Yes, I know the Clippers were playing their fourth game in five nights on Thursday. Still, contained within the Nuggets’ blowout win were encouraging signs that suggest this team is growing from just being a very successful regular season bunch to a crew capable of winning some playoff games.
What we saw:
Paint Presence
As quiet as it’s kept, Nene has done a more than admirable...
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9 days ago
More on the Nuggets’ big win in Lob City
As I wrote in Thursday’s paper, Al Harrington was steadfast – the Nuggets are a better team than the Clippers, he said.
Yes, there is a lot of basketball left to be played in this season, but the Nuggets mauled the home team in the marquee TNT matchup Thursday, here in Los Angeles.
Sure enough, one of the biggest game-changing plays was inches from being a viral sensation....
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9 days ago
Blake Griffin dunk: “It’s better than a Mozgov!”
Before Timofey Mozgov became the Nuggets starting center this season, he was best known for being dunk upon/over by Blake Griffin, back when Timofey played for the Knicks. Well, on Monday night, the Clippers’ Griffin unleashed a similar dunk on a similarly sized center – Kendrick Perkins of the Thunder (video below).
As the broadcasters lost their minds, here was their debate...
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12 days ago
Lawson improving, but still game-time decision for Nuggets at Memphis
Ty Lawson said Monday that his injured ankle is improving, but that he remains a game-time decision for the Nuggets vs. the Grizzlies in Memphis on Tuesday. More updates and details coming later at denverpost.com/nuggets.
George Karl, Andre Miller and Lawson talked about what his absence meant to Denver in its loss to the Clippers on Sunday:
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13 days ago
George Karl on how Chauncey Billups saved his NBA coaching career
Chris Dempsey on Sunday looked back at the lingering legacy of Chauncey Billups in Denver, and how is trade to and from the Nuggets really affected the franchise.
In the story, George Karl talks about how the Allen Iverson trade that brought Billups to Denver saved Karl’s career as an NBA coach.
Here is Karl telling that story at Nuggets practice on Saturday, a day before...
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13 days ago
Lawson says he’s good-to-go for tomorrow’s game vs. Clippers
Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson said he will play in tomorrow night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers after missing the team’s game on Friday against Toronto.
“It’s a big game and I want to be ready for it,” said Lawson today after practice. “I’m pretty optimistic, I’m feeling a lot better. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”
Lawson, who will be matched up against...
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15 days ago
Happy Linas Kleiza harbors no ill-will toward Nuggets organization
The buzz cut has grown out to a longer mane, but the trademark smile and jumper remain the same. Linas Kleiza is loving his basketball life so much more now.
First, he’s playing. Shelved for nearly a year after undergoing microfracture surgery on his right knee last February, Kleiza is just starting to get his legs under him. He’s played in nine games this season. Ice packs...
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16 days ago
Nuggets Arron Afflalo, Rudy Fernandez to return tonight; Ty Lawson doubtful
As one player – starting point guard Ty Lawson – appears doubtful for tonight’s game against Toronto, two other Nuggets are set to return.
Guards Arron Afflalo and Rudy Fernandez both participated in this morning’s shootaround and will play in the game. Afflalo should assume his normal spot in the starting lineup as the Nuggets get back to more of a normal rotation – at...
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16 days ago
Nuggets coach George Karl, Ty Lawson, others talk about Gallinari contract
At today’s shootaround in Sacramento, numerous Nuggets talked about Danilo Gallinari’s four-year, $42-plus million contract extension to Denver Post contributing writer John Parker:
DANILO GALLINARI
“It was easy to say ‘Yes’ to this contract. It’s very nice because we’ve been playing very well. We have a lot of very good young guys, very unselfish players and I...
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18 days ago
Instant reaction to the Nuggets-Danilo Gallinari news
* You got to credit the Nuggets front office for recognizing what they had on their hands – locking up Gallo and, arguably, not overpaying (four years, $42 million plus incentives). The guy is only 23. No – no! – he won’t be Carmelo Anthony. But he can be a 18-20 ppg guy who will hustle, drive hard to the basket AND as we’ve seen this year, he’s a better one-on-one defender...
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18 days ago
Nuggets coach George Karl: Right now, team development trumps playing rookies
The finicky thing about youth is its reluctance to just go away after one season. It holds on.
Nuggets coach George Karl looks at his team and sees a good number of his players still in basketball elementary school. Some of those players – Ty Lawson, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, among them – play significant roles in the Nuggets’ success. They are not rookies, yet remain...
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19 days ago
Danilo Gallinari’s responsibility shift sparking breakout season
One of the more remarkable stats coming out of the Nuggets’ win at New York on Saturday came courtesy of Danilo Gallinari: He scored a career-high 37 points – with just one 3-point make.
Anyone believing Gallinari was solely a long-range shooter, and there are many, wouldn’t have bet he’d tally that many points in a game without the benefit of four or five buckets...
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20 days ago
Nuggets Arron Afflalo, Rudy Fernandez taking their time with injuries
Both Nuggets starting shooting guard Arron Afflalo and reserve guard Rudy Fernandez are erring on the side of caution in returning from injuries in order not to come back too fast and suffer a setback.
Because of that mindset, neither sounded overly optimistic about playing on Wednesday in the Nuggets’ next game at Sacramento. Afflalo has a groin injury and Fernandez has been...
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20 days ago
Scott Hastings answering questions for Denver Post “Fan Mail”
With the new-look, team-oriented Nuggets on big-time roll, it’s a good time to get some perspective from Scott Hastings.
The Nuggets’ color analyst for Altitude TV and afternoon sports-radio host on 104.3 FM-KKFN, has been talking sports and hoops since he retired from the NBA in 1993. Considering Hastings was a perennial member of the NBA’s “all-interview...
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21 days ago
Carmelo Anthony talks Friday about (another) Knicks loss, playing Nuggets
Melo versus the Nuggets. It’s finally happening on Saturday. But on Friday, New York lost its fifth-straight game. And the loss came at home. To Milwaukee. Here are Carmelo’s quotes to the media from after the game.
Q: What’s the reason for losses?
I don’t know. I can’t put my finger on it. It hurts, though. It hurts losing the way we’re losing. Tonight, frustration set...
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22 days ago
NBA TV series features the Denver Nuggets
If you recall, last year there was a show called “The Association,” which detailed the ins-and-outs of the Boston Celtics. It was awesome. Well, they’re doing it again this year – this time with the Nuggets.
The first episode will air January 25 on NBA TV at 4 p.m., Mountain time. There will be five more episodes during the course of the season (I’ll post the schedule...
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24 days ago
A historical perspective on Nuggets guard Andre Miller’s big night
It takes a village. So team PR man Nick O’Hayre occasionally tweets random Nuggets nuggets (@NickOHayre). Last night in Philadelphia, Denver’s Andre Miller tallied 28 points, eight rebounds and 10 assists off the bench. Nick tweeted that Dre is only the second player in team history to have those amounts off the bench – the other was Alex English, who had 31-10-8 in a 1983...
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24 days ago
No Mozgov tonight – “Sandy” Koufos to start for the Nuggets
Denver center Timofey Mozgov will rest his stained back tonight, thus allowing Kosta Koufos to start for the Nuggets. Denver is 2-1 with Koufos starting. He has played OK at times this season, thus earning him a goofy nickname from this reporter. He had a big night in the road win at New Orleans this month, tallying eight points, five boards and three blocks.
Also, Denver reserve...
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25 days ago
Tonight’s Nuggets-76ers games provides intriguing matchup
Bucks coach Scott Skiles endured Jrue Holiday on Monday. Then he suffered through Ty Lawson on Tuesday. Well, those two young point guards will face off here in Philadelphia tonight.
Asked if these are two of the NBA’s top blossoming point guards, Skiles said, “I think it’s fair to say. Both guys have improved. Holiday, we didn’t have much of an answer for him. As I said...
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25 days ago
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