Nuggets survive scary Jamal Murray ankle injury, handle Hornets at home

Win or win, the Nuggets weren’t going to be in nearly as much pain since Jamal Murray. Late in the second quarter of Wednesday’s ultimate 100-86 success, Murray moved to competition a 3-pointer from Charlotte protector Terry Rozier, only to come down and roll his ankle. Murray, with his arms draped over teammates P.J. Dozier
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Nikola Jokic, Nuggets hang on for impressive win over Clippers

So much for a Sunday hangover. The Nuggets flushed their disappointing loss Saturday night and bounced back with an astonishing 114-104 victory in the Pepsi Center against the Los Angeles Clippers, one of the presumed name favorites heading into this season. Buoyed by Nikola Jokic’s creature match, Denver enhanced to 27-12. On the night of
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Michael Porter Jr. scores career-high 19 as Nuggets survive 4th-quarter meltdown against Kings

Nikola Jokic tried to give Michael Porter Jr. a high-five for his defensive effort, but, alas, the Nuggets’ celebrated rookie left him hanging, still clearly with a lot to learn. Porter made his first NBA start Sunday night, and the miss with Jokic was one of very few he had in a 120-115 victory against
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Nuggets humbled on Christmas Day as Pelicans snap winning streak at 7

A Christmas Day showcase, it wasn’t. At least to the Nuggets, whose seven-game winning streak was snapped in the hands of a rebuilding — nevertheless hungry — Pelicans squad. New Orleans came to Pepsi Center for its Nuggets’ first Christmas Day match since 2012 and handed them a humbling 112-100 reduction, not reminiscent of the
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Nuggets Journal: Should Denver make a deal before trade deadline?

Think you’t obtained grandiose strategies to enhance your Denver Nuggets? Great, now that we’re past Dec. 15, those trade plans are just marginally more grounded in reality. Dec. 15 declared the unofficial beginning of NBA trade season, at which free agents that signed this summer are now eligible to be transferred. That means over 90%
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“You’ve got to go in for a fight”: Nuggets ride momentum surge entering rematch with LeBron James and Lakers

Jamal Murray allow his emotions take charge. Would you blame him? The peak of this ferocious five-game Nuggets winning series remaining on Friday night when a Gary Harris steal resulted in some Nikola Jokic quick break, and then a crisp socket move to Murray behind the arc. Denver’s point guard didn’t wait. He cried the
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Nuggets stretch winning streak to six, spoil Isaiah Thomas’ homecoming

Washington’s crime had nothing for the steamrolling Nuggets. Denver won its sixth game in a row — and 10th in their last 11 tries — after beating the Wizards 117-104 on Tuesday night in Pepsi Center. They complete ’ll carry the record from the Western Conference right into an protracted split over Thanksgiving before restarting
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Monte Morris: Nuggets “just weren’t there” vs. Trae Young, Atlanta Hawks

It wasn’t the dagger. It was the spin. The nadir might’ve include 2:30 left in the third quarter, even when Trae Young chose the ball past the timeline along with shimmied past Nuggets shield Will Barton into receptive real estate along the ideal elbow. Young, the Atlanta Hawks’ supercilious second-year shield, stopped and hauled a
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Hawks’ Trae Young erupts for 42, Atlanta snaps Denver’s four-game winning streak

The Nuggets understood what they had been in for, however they looked helpless to prevent the Atlanta Hawks’ firecracker point protector. Trae Young toyed with the Nuggets’ shield Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center as part of a gorgeous functionality. Snapped the Nuggets’ streak since the Hawks prevailed 125-121. The loss, which was all the
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Nuggets guard Malik Beasley talks Kobe Bryant camp, contract year: “I have no pressure at all”

Malik Beasley’s brain cramp against Phoenix was exactly the type of play he and Kobe Bryant had worked to eliminate. Beasley had earned one of the coveted invites to Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy camp in late August. It was the same camp that Jamal Murray, Beasley’s close friend and teammate, called the “highlight” of his
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