So this is what it feels like when a $30 million bag of fool’s gold falls on your head. On the night when Paul Millsap, the man given an NBA fortune to teach the young Nuggets how to win, returned to the Denver lineup after missing 42 games with a wrist injury, the team not…
The long-awaited return of the Denver Nuggets $30-million man has nearly arrived. Paul Millsap — the four-time All-Star and prized free-agent acquisition for the Nuggets — has fought back from a ligament injury in his left wrist that occurred on November 19th against the Los Angeles Clippers. The injury required surgery and has had Millsap…
Nuggets President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly joined CBS4 sports anchor Michael Spencer for Xfinity Monday Live at the ViewHouse Centennial on Monday. DENVER (CBS4) – The Denver Nuggets have won four of their last five games and ended Monday as the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference standings. “We’re an extremely confident team,”…
via Nuggets’ Connelly Says Team’s Confidence Is Soaring — CBS Denver
Welcome to Triple-Double Watch, a weekly check-in on everyone’s favorite arbitrary milestone of round, base-ten numbers. Since the All-Star break truncated weeks 18 and 19 of the season, we’re consolidating them here into one super-week: eighneteen. While this period technically covers eight days of games instead of seven, it still produced the most triple-doubles of any frame…
via Triple-Double Watch Week 18/19: Jokic with a hat trick — FanSided
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via Paul Millsap (wrist) questionable tonight vs. LA Clippers — NBA.com: News
DENVER (AP) – Michael Malone wasn’t all that thrilled about the lack of composure in the final quarter. Or all the turnovers. Or the shot selection. Or even the defense. Still, he won’t quibble with the outcome. “We survived,” Denver’s coach said. Nikola Jokic scored 29 points and grabbed a season-high 18 rebounds, Gary Harris…
via Jokic’s Big Night Helps Nuggets Hold Off Mavericks — CBS Denver
LOS ANGELES — Teammates playfully yelled at Richard Jefferson when he passed up an open 3-pointer Friday against Memphis. The reason Jefferson didn’t fire away? He was rusty. After all, he had only played 61 total minutes during the season’s first 41 games. Now the Nuggets need their 17-year veteran on the court more than…
With the Denver Nuggets coming off a 128-125 overtime loss at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves there is a lot to be discussed, so the Denver Nuggets Daily podcast turned to Sean Walsh to help make sense of the insanity that was the Nuggets’ overtime loss. Sean Walsh and T.J. McBride of Mile High Sports break down…
via Denver Nuggets Daily: Nuggets’ overtime loss to Minnesota is a positive sign — Mile High Sports
The Denver Nuggets find themselves at 16-15, good for second in the Northwest Division but seventh in the Western Conference by virtue of a tiebreaker. They’re still in the thick of the playoff race as they get Nikola Jokic back into the swing of things while waiting for their defensive anchor — Paul Millsap —…
via The good, the bad and the ugly — new surprises but same old issues for Nuggets — Mile High Sports
Nikola Jokic understood the pain, he could see it manifest in the blood that rushed to a swollen left ankle. What the Nuggets’ star center could not grasp, though, was the incentive to make it go away. “I was running, preparing myself. And when I wasn’t playing, it was like, ‘Why am I doing this?’…
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