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Kiszla: Nuggets need one more piece to win NBA championship. Could Jrue Holiday be the answer?

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If likability counted for anything in the NBA, Joker and Jamal would indicate pro basketball’s next great dynasty. Heck, Pepsi Center would need to be expanded to store all the Nuggets’ championship trophies. But hugs won’t get you hardware. To build a legit title contender, the Nuggets have to add another large piece. Maybe it’s
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Keeler: LeBron’s worried about home-court advantage in 2020 NBA Playoffs. That’s good news for the Nuggets.

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At least they can hear you. Kind of. Thanks to web cams and the sharp knives in the NBA marketing drawer who made virtual fandom cool, they can even see a 2-D feed of you. Or your dog. But they can’t feel you. They can’t feel you in the final five minutes, when the Nuggets
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Nuggets center Nikola Jokic “cannot control” how COVID-19 affects him

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Nikola Jokic doesn’t know what sort of effects that are long-term COVID-19 might have on himbut he also doesn’t need to waste time considering it. Jokic, who’been at the Orlando “bubble” for over a week later he tested positive while at Serbia, stated the NBA’so doctors can’t forecast how the virus might impact him during
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Nuggets Mailbag: Will Nikola Jokic’s weight loss negatively affect his game?

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Denver Post sports writer Mike Singer and his latest Nuggets Mailbag. Pose a Nuggets — or NBA — related question for the Nuggets Mailbag. I’ve been reading about Nikola Jokic is slimming down and is in great form. His burden was an actual asset for him because they could not simply push him and he
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Amid coronavirus crisis, Nuggets legend Dikembe Mutombo can’t stop playing defense

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Dikembe Mutombo’s reach was always destined to be global, canvassing far more of the world than the paint he patrolled for 18 seasons in the NBA. From the moment he was drafted by the Denver Nuggets with the fourth overall pick in June of 1991, Mutombo had designs on something greater. Somehow, he’d give back
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Keeler: The Avalanche and Nuggets get to finish what they started? Hallelujah!

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It was forced by us into Memorial Day with our sanity intact. Mostly. The New York Jets simply threw a cone filled with money in the stagnant husk that was Joe Flacco, the surest sign yet that matters are creeping back into normal again. “That’s the story of existence. It’s a matter of when,” Bill
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Colorado Xplosion, the state’s first pro women’s basketball team, helped ABL change the sport

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Amid the dust, both dinginess and thin crowds of Denver Coliseum, the Colorado Xplosion planted seeds for women ’ s basketball’s growth and stabilization. The unheralded team was in the center of excellence in girls ’s basketball in 1996 as one of eight franchises in the American Basketball League. The ABL launched that October because
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Nuggets Journal: NBA’s return – and postseason – hinges on these four factors

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A little more than fourteen days into the coronavirus hiatus and NBA heads are becoming restless. Players whose bodies have been conditioned to ramp up their performance are currently stewing. Trainers who would ordinarily be scouting playoff competitions are left with an void. Media, typically tasked with figuring tiebreak scenarios out are forced to speculate.
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Nuggets rewind: From embarrassing to stunning, the 8 moments that defined Denver’s season

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Whichever way the time went, it was definitely going to be memorable. The Nuggets would capitalize on year &rsquo effort and establish that their staying power or discriminated beneath the stress of expectations. Though the Nuggets skidded into the hiatus with six losses in their past 11 matches, theyrsquo;t experienced a season up to now.
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NBA Journal: Basketball isn’t close to returning. What will it look like when it does?

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If we’t learned anything concerning COVID-19 and how it relates to the NBA, it’s that Commissioner Adam Silver’s first 30-day timeframe to close the league down was conservative. If it supposed games could be performed on the other side of this hiatus Nearly anybody would take a long-sleeved suspension. But a little more than a
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