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Kiszla: Nuggets need to end this charade with Isaiah Thomas, their reluctant $2 million cheerleader, and cut him.

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The Nuggets need to do the right thing and cut ties with Isaiah Thomas, until a proud athlete’s fall from legit MVP candidate to being a sad prop at the end of Denver’s bench becomes any more painfully awkward to watch. Yes, this really is a bummer deal. The Nuggets were hoping for a miracle,
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Kiszla: As NBA playoffs approach, how great do Nuggets want to be? “I want to be Michael Jordan,” Nikola Jokic insists.

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What do the Nuggets want to be? “You want the real answer? ” Nikola Jokic said. Yes, please. “Michael Jordan,” Jokic said. “That’s who I need to be. ” Hey, we all can dream. But I suggested Jokic may need to jump a bit higher to be like Mike. “No, I need to be Michael
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Kiszla: Avs are the team Joe built. So would it be wrong to blame Sakic for a hockey team that stinks?

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This is the team that Joe constructed. And that team stinks. For a full two months, our local NHL squad was a rip-roaring disaster downhill that is directly, like a stinking Avalanche. “Oh, here it comes,” Joe Sakic said Tuesday, as I ready to ask why a team that stood tall next to Nashville beneath
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Mark Kiszla’s Lunch Special: Anthony Davis to the Nuggets?

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Anthony Davis wants out of New Orleans. If the Nuggets deal and wheel and attempt to produce a run in the former No. 1 overall pick? That was one topic of conversation this week in the Lunch Special chat. Listed below are columnist Mark Kiszla’so answers on Davis, Michael Porter Jr., and what the Nuggets
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Lunch Special: Denver sports live chat with Mark Kiszla

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Want to chat about the Nuggets or the Avalanche or Even Have a Question about Broncos or the Rockies? Columnist Mark Kiszla is taking your queries at noon. Mobile users, if it’s possible to ’t see the live blog, tap here. (function(d, s, id) var js,ijs=d. getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d. CreateElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//embed.scribblelive.com/widgets/embed.js”;ijs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ijs);(document,”script”,”scrbbl-js”));Happy New Year Kiz. The Avs lasted
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Kiszla: MVP candidate Nikola Jokic gives voice to Nuggets’ impossible dream: “Playoffs. Finals.”

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It’s Nuggetsmania. And that celebration will be off the hook. Last I looked inside the Pepsi Center, there was a middle-aged mother shaking her mother jeans onto the large screen, dance like no one was watching, least of all her humiliated son, who slumped into his seat, face buried in his hands. After Nuggets center
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