The Nuggets published their whole schedule to the 2019-20 year on Monday afternoon, also there are plenty of yummy matchups to look forward to. The regular season starts Oct. 23 at Portland and can be accompanied closely by the home opener two days later against Phoenix on Friday, Oct. 25. Here are 10 of the
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If Damian Lillard doesn’t want to look at Torrey Craig’s crooked headband-wearing mug ever again, there’s not a soul across the NBA who could blame the guy. Not after what he went through Sunday. The screens didn’t work. Being quick off the dribble didn’t work. It wasn’t Dame time. Wherever Lillard turned Sunday afternoon, Craig
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SAN ANTONIO — Denver will be treated to the two best words in sports: Game 7. The Nuggets couldn’t convert on their first opportunity to close out San Antonio on Thursday night, falling 120-103 in Game 6 of the first-round playoff series. The loss spoiled Nikola Jokic’s performance. The Nuggets will find another chance in
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SAN ANTONIO — About 20 minutes after the Nuggets had seized control of their first-round series against the Spurs, Jamal Murray stood outside of the interview room Saturday spinning a basketball on his finger and tossing bounce passes off the wall in the corridors of the AT&T Center. Evidently, he hadn’t feasted enough during the
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LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan. San Antonio’s two stars were ruthless in their Game 6 win. No shield from Paul Millsap or Torrey Craig can do anything contrary to their torrent of jumpers and leaners that are fading. According to Nuggets coach Michael Malone, the Spurs shot 20-of-29 on midrange jumpers. That’s one which will
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The Nuggets know they’re the better team. It only took them until Game 5 to prove it. Sooner or later, their confidence was likely to overwhelm. That flooding came in the form of an 108-90 rout of San Antonio on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center, giving the Nuggets a commanding 3-2 lead in their
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While Gary Harris was in street clothes, DeMar DeRozan averaged 22.5 points and 6.0 rebounds in the first two meetings between the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs during the regular season. In both tilts that watched Harris active and in the scrum, the All-Star wing’s averages dipped to 17.5 and 3.5, respectively. Coincidence? Not
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Even the NBA on Thursday release its yields for the all-star vote and also for the third straight week, Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is sitting in the No. 7 spot. He is seventh among Western Conference frontcourt players, falling farther behind No. 6-ranked Steven Adams of the Thunder. Jokic, 23, is directing the Nuggets in
-> Continue reading The third NBA All-Star vote returns are in. Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic is still in seventh.
SAN ANTONIO — The Nuggets could still maintain a Christmas lull. The Spurs took it into the Nuggets from the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s match and pulled away to get a 111-103 win. A 15-0 fourth-quarter run, buoyed by 3-pointers along with dunks, secured the Spurs’ success, although Denver made a late run to
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