NBA GMs tab Nuggets as most “fun” team to watch

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

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 schedule released: Counting down Denver’s must-see home games in 2019-20

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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Paul Millsap “expected” to be back with Nuggets, Tim Connelly says

If Tim Connelly has his druthers, Paul Millsap is coming back for another tour with the Denver Nuggets. “Our aim and Paul’s aim is to get him back with us,” Connelly, the Nuggets’ president of basketball operations, told reporters during a joint news conference with coach Michael Malone in the Pepsi Center late Tuesday morning.
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Kiz vs. Singer: Why does Nikola Jokic have to be so mean to Enes Kanter?

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

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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Why Nuggets think they’re “ready this time around” to notch Game 6 road win

Will Barton will bring the hammer on Mother’s Day, by Thor, if he has to. But given a choice, rsquo;d & he prefer not to. Heck, they would. “The 1 thing I think I can say is, this time, we don’t want to return here,” Barton, the Nuggets guard, said when asked about the possibility
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Nikola Jokic powers Nuggets to Game 1 win over Blazers

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

#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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Nuggets come up short against Trail Blazers in Game 2, series tied 1-1

The Nuggets fought through a nose and a woeful but the Trail Blazers didn’t balk. Portland stole Game 2 on Wednesday night 97-90 as feelings flared on both sides in the Pepsi Center and the playoff series was evened up at a game apiece. The Nuggets tried to mount a comeback, getting as close a
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