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Kiszla: How soon can Jerami Grant replace Paul Millsap as Nuggets’ starter at power forward?

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The chants of “M-V-P, M-V-P!” bounced off the Pepsi Center walls from the first time Nuggets center Nikola Jokic stepped to the foul line, less than two minutes into the first quarter of the home-opener in the most anticipated season in franchise history. “I’d much rather clean up and teach after a win than a
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Kiszla: How the Fangio Stare, soon to be famous in Broncos Country, is redefining Denver’s defense

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Every soccer trainer does it his way, but no one does it quite like brand new Broncos coach Vic Fangio. How to define his coaching style, in one word? Silence. “It’s hard to get a read on him,” Broncos safety Justin Simmons stated through the group ’s opening spring exercises with Fangio. “You typically can
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Kiszla: Why John Elway has done Vic Fangio no favors during new coach’s brief tenure with Broncos

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It’s a fantastic thing the hair that hasn’t fallen from Vic Fangio’s head turned grey before he took a job in Broncos Country. This football team is a mess larger than the spill that bounced everyone from Vance Joseph to Case Keenum out the door at Dove Valley Headquarters. Rather than devoting their new head
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Kiszla: After must-win in playoffs, how do we know Avs have what it takes to win the Cup? In a word: Gruuu!

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Who’s s your Gruuu-Daddy? When the Avalanche needed it goalie Philipp Grubauer stared into the teeth of the Sharks and refused to blink. Could this be the birth of a playoff legend? In a victory against San Jose that evened this playoff series at two victories apiece, Grubauer stopped all 32 shots he faced. And
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Kiszla: Cute Avs play soft, get eaten alive by Sharks and really irk coach Jared Bednar in 4-2 playoff loss

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Dude, hey. This hairy, 4-2 decrease the Avalanche endured against San Jose in the NHL playoffs reminded me of something a wiser fella than myself said in “The Big Lebowski. ” Sometimes you eat the bear. And occasionally Logan Couture, well, he eats you. Too often on Tuesday night, the Avs were “adorable ” and
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Kiszla: After winning Game 7 for Nuggets, Nikola Jokic was too pooped to dance. So a reborn basketball city got up and danced for him.

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When it was finally over, and the Nuggets had won a playoff series for the first time in a decade by beating San Antonio 90-86 Saturday night, center Nikola Jokic was so tired he could not take another step. Too pooped to raise a fist much less pump it, Joker put hands on his knees
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Kiszla: Can’t ignore big, white elephant in the room. Nikola Jokic among NBA’s five best players in 2019.

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Underneath exactly the exact same basket Nikola Jokic rattled with a thunderous dunk that brought down the house, there sat linebacker Von Miller, wearing a No. 15 Nuggets jersey. In the first row near midcourt, Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon leaned forward in a prime seat, savoring each one of Joker’s 16 points, 11 rebounds and
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Kiszla: LaMarcus Aldridge finally gives Nuggets fans what a too-polite basketball city needs, a villain to boo

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They’re Nuggets to crack, as LaMarcus “Low Blow” Aldridge and those basketball bullies down in San Antonio have found. In this NBA playoff series, have the Spurs come undone? We all know the Nuggets have nowhere close to the championship pedigree of a proud San Antonio franchise and harbor ’t even won a match in
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Colorado Avalanche vs. Calgary Flames playoff predictions

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The Avalanche on Thursday night begins its run at the Stanley Cup as it opens the playoffs at Calgary. Colorado hasn’t won a playoff series since 2008, when it topped the Minnesota Wild 4-2 in the Western Conference quarterfinals. Will this be the year the Avs break their streak of bad luck? Its opinion is
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Kiszla: “Baywatch” boxers and tricks shots at the buzzer. Making the case for Nuggets center Nikola Jokic as MVP.

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After hitting a trick shot that would’ve done Larry Bird proud to beat Dallas in the buzzer, Nikola Jokic pulled on his “Baywatch” boxers in the Pepsi Center locker room and acted as if his heroics were as pure dumb luck as purchasing a winning lotto ticket with the last dollar in his pocket. “Lucky
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