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Why Paul Millsap and Jerami Grant bring needed balance to Nuggets frontcourt

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Paul Millsap cashed in a pull-up jumper from behind the arc. Jerami Grant, seated under the scorer’s table inside the Pepsi Center prepared to check, flashed three fingers on each hand. Seconds later from the quarter of the Nuggets’ preseason finale Thursday night against the Blazers, there was a frontcourt substitution emblematic of a larger
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NBA GMs tab Nuggets as most “fun” team to watch

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Less than a week from the onset of this 2019-’20 NBA season, general managers across the league are packed with the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets were featured In NBA.com’s yearly survey of this league’s 30 GMs, even if they didn’t choose them to win a title this season. (They did predict, but theyrsquo;d finish with
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Projecting the Nuggets’ depth chart heading into 2019-’20 season

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It was simple practical, for Nuggets trainer Michael Malone to dismiss the query. Malone was sitting in the news conference for enviable forward Jerami Grant and was not interested in indulging questions which training camp and preseason would finally answer. “I haven’t thought rotations and about the depth chart,” Malone stated with a laugh. “I’m
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Nuggets offseason agenda: What moves can Denver make?

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The business of basketball never sleeps. However, for the Nuggets, rather than having to negotiate a trade requirement from a celebrity player (New Orleans) or dreading a potential departure of a Finals MVP (Toronto), Denver is confronted with different so-called fantastic problems that summer. The most pressing issue pertains to the $30 million team option
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Nuggets Mailbag: Who could Denver target in free agency summer?

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Who are the one man the Nuggets should target and have a chance? I enjoy Julius Randle, Bojan Bogdanovic and Khris Middleton . — Rich, Lakewood Those are adequate options but so much of what they can do will be based on what happens with all Paul Millsap and also his 30 million team option.
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With running mate struggling, Portland guard CJ McCollum carries Blazers past Nuggets

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Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum was asked about his 37 points in his group ’s 100-96 win over the Nuggets on Sunday, propelling them to the Western Conference final for the first time in 19 years. However, McCollum’s face only really lit up when he was asked about his lone shot in the Blazers’
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Kiz vs. Singer: Why does Nikola Jokic have to be so mean to Enes Kanter?

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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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Blazers survive Nuggets in Game 6, force winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday

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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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Nikola Jokic powers Nuggets to Game 1 win over Blazers

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Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard arrived as advertised. He just wasn’t Nikola Jokic. Not even a flagrant foul to the face could slow Denver’s franchise center, who barged his way into 37 points in the Nuggets’ 121-113 victory against Portland on Monday night in the Pepsi Center at Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinal
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Jamal Murray will continue getting mugged in the NBA Playoffs

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#AbuseTheArrow? #MugMurray? #JamJamal? Even if it isn’t trending on Twitter, it’s sure as hell trending in the throes of this Nuggets-Blazers series. And Jamal Murray has the sorry we’re up to plurals to prove it. “(Those displays ) hurt. It’s what it is,” the Nuggets’ point guard said after a painful 15-point, seven-rebound campaign against
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