As debilitating as Sunday’s Game 7 loss might be, there’s little doubt that the Nuggets arrived ahead of schedule this season. They went from one game out of the playoffs a year ago into the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference and one win shy of the franchise’s first conference finals trip in a
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DENVER — CJ McCollum scored 37 points and the Portland Trail Blazers overcame a deficit to beat against the Denver Nuggets 100-96 on Sunday to advance to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2000. Evan Turner, who scored only four points in the first six games of the show, added 14 points,
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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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Simple math says you crowd Damian Lillard every dang time down the floor, from about the logo on. But if 2 < 3 isn’t a sexy enough case for why the Denver Nuggets were doing what they do heading into Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals, there’s also this: When the Blazers’ sharpshooter
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DENVER — The Nuggets and Avalanche continue to win in the playoffs and that’s a victory for downtown businesses. The Avalanche play the San Jose Sharks on Monday night at the Pepsi Center in Game 6 of their Western Conference semifinal series. The Sharks direct the series and can wrap up the series with a
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The Portland Trail Blazers Reacted well to their Game 5 loss to set the stage for Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday afternoon. Sunday, May 12 at 3:30 PM ET Pepsi Center Coverage: ABC *All odds and gambling info courtesy of OddsShark and originally posted by Bookmaker Portland
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Question: Why does Nikola Jokic have to be so mean to Enes Kanter? Kiz: Among all of the developments I witnessed in the Nuggets’ crucial victory at Portland in Game 4 of their NBA playoff series, possibly the most surprising to me was the sound of 20,000 Blazers fans booing Nikola Jokic each time he
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A season as riveting as the one the Nuggets are riding could just reach its pinnacle with another huge challenge: Game 7, the Nuggets’ second in their rollicking postseason run. With their season on the line, Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers didn’t balk. Unwilling to go home early, the Blazers pulled
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Will Barton will bring the hammer on Mother’s Day, by Thor, if he has to. But given a choice, rsquo;d & he prefer not to. Heck, they would. “The 1 thing I think I can say is, this time, we don’t want to return here,” Barton, the Nuggets guard, said when asked about the possibility
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In four games against the Trail Blazers, Nuggets center Nikola Jokic has averaged 26.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 9.5 assists. But “Big Honey” met his match after the game against a microphone. During the postgame interview Sunday, Denver’s 7-foot superstar had difficulty pulling out a microphone from its stand. After a short struggle, Jokic ripped
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