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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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A whole new look, for a whole new NBA game experience

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — There’s no bench. The courtside broadcasters will not be courtside. And the stat crew will be doing their work inside what loosely can be described as an oversized hockey penalty box. The NBA comes back Wednesday with a very different look. The league’s marketing motto for the restart of the
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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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Nikola Jokic, Nuggets hang on for impressive win over Clippers

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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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Go for 2: In today’s NBA, a powerful pair beats 3 of a kind

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In today’s high-stakes NBA, a group beats three of a kind. Teams who want to create a Big Three ‘ are striving for a dynamic duo, hoping two players are good enough once the belief used to be that it took a trio to win a championship. And with a number of the combinations constructed
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Nuggets schedule released: Counting down Denver’s must-see home games in 2019-20

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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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Kawhi Leonard made the long climb back to the NBA Finals. Now he’s the series’ central force.

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As Kawhi Leonard moved to center stage for his moment with Bill Russell, his San Antonio Spurs mates raised his arms, caught a wrist with one hand, and splayed the palms of the other as wide as you can. The team “Klaw” hint, an homage to Leonard’s mitts, was accompanied. The then-22-year-old forwards became the
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Analysis: The title of “best player in the league” is at stake in the NBA Finals

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TORONTO — There has been a time, at the ago, when Masai Ujiri could have been labeled a heretic, a lunatic or possibly both. In the minutes following the Toronto Raptors advanced to the NBA Finals using Saturday’s Game 6 win, the franchise’so president, even using a sheet of confetti still napping on his shoulder,
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The third NBA All-Star vote returns are in. Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic is still in seventh.

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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
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