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How the Nuggets discovered Nikola Jokic and turned Denver into the NBA’s fastest-growing market

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The decision-makers in the Denver Nuggets’ front workplace used to play a home game game regarding franchise pillar Nikola Jokic. Had the Nuggets not chosen Jokic with the No. 41 choice in the 2014 draft, a prescient selection that set the basis for this year ’s surprising success, how large, they believed, could he have gone a year after a breakthrough
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Nuggets Insider: Michael Malone and Denver’s impending minutes crunch

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When it wasn’t readily clear a few weeks ago, it’s jumping-off-the-screen clear now — Malik Beasley is legit. Monte Morris isn’t too bad . Or Torrey Craig. Or Trey Lyles. Or Juan Hernangomez. Or. The Nuggets are filled, and we may not even understand it when it wasn ’ t for the injuries suffered during
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Malik Beasley, Torrey Craig drop career-highs as Nuggets snap losing streak to Rockets

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There were jams, and there has been a downpour of 3-pointers. But rather than coming out of a Houston side that has tormented Denver the past couple of decades, it had been the Nuggets who flipped the script. Underneath newly-crowned All-Star Nikola Jokic and career-high nights in Malik Beasley and Torrey Craig, the Nuggets snapped
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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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Nuggets’ Will Barton: If defense matched offense, Denver could put teams away by halftime

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Andy Cross, The Denver PostGolden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson (11) slam dunks over Denver Nuggets forward Paul Millsap (4) and Denver Nuggets Ahead Torrey Craig (3) in first quarter in the Pepsi Center on Jan. 15, 2019. MEMPHIS — Veterans Paul Millsap and Will Barton understand for the Nuggets to reach their potential —
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Nuggets withstand Nikola Jokic suspension, pound Suns

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Thus far for skipping a beat. The Nuggets started the afternoon believing Nikola Jokic will be busy Friday only to later learn that he was suspended for leaving the bench area during Wednesday’s altercation. It didn’however. The Nuggets pounded the Suns 132-95 within his lack to increase 32-15 overall and 21-4 at Pepsi Center. Eight
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Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic on season-high 39 points: “Poetry in motion”

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The Nuggets have won five in a row overall and ten in a row at the Pepsi Center, however Nikola Jokic is functioning on a different, more poetic streak. For the 2nd consecutive game, Jokic rumbled down to the courtroom at a sleek, comfortable pace before throwing down a rare dip for the 7-foot major
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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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Nikola Jokic’s triple-double leads Nuggets past Knicks for ninth consecutive home win

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Two starters , one to go. Gary Harris returned by his hip injury Tuesday night in the Pepsi Center, along with the Nuggets fended off a feisty New York Knicks team 115-108 to improve to 24-11. It had been the Nuggets’ ninth successive win in the home along with also the Knicks’ eighth straight loss
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