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On Tuesday night, Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets opened up their NBA title defense 119-107 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, the same team they knocked out of the playoffs in the Western Conference Finals a year ago. Jokic was dominant on the evening, recording 29 points, 11 assists, and 13 rebounds in the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers opened their 2023-24 season against the Denver Nuggets. Denver came out hot, but the Lakers are still hanging around. The Lakers-Nuggets rivalry stems from the 2023 Western Conference Finals, where LA got swept in four games. It seems the drama is not over, with a recent highlight play that shows LeBron […]

It did not take LeBron James long to turn heads with his scoring prowess. In the first game of the 2023-24 NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers forward managed to score 10 points in the first half, which isn’t exactly a mind-blowing feat until you realize that the four-time league Most Valuable Player has now […]

Last season, Nikola Jokic solidified himself as one of the top 10 centers in NBA history. He effectively eradicated the “regular season MVP” narrative that latched onto him the past couple of years, leading the Denver Nuggets to their first championship in franchise history. Although Jokic’s legacy is no longer in question, he can still […]

On Tuesday evening, Michael Malone and the Denver Nuggets celebrated their 2023 NBA championship with a ring ceremony before their season-opening game against the Los Angeles Lakers. During the ceremony, Malone addressed fans and floated the proposition of adding to the Nuggets’ trophy case during the coming season. “Last year was amazing. We got one […]

The Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers kick off the 2023-24 NBA season Wednesday night, with the Western Conference rivals squaring off in Mile High City. But before that, Nikola Jokic and company received their NBA championship rings for topping the league in the previous season. The reigning Finals MVP Nikola Jokic now has […]

The NBA season is finally upon us, and what a doozy the league gave the world on opening night to tipoff the 2023-24 season. The Denver Nuggets are receiving their rings against one of the teams they took down on their quest to a championship in the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers seem to remember […]

The Denver Nuggets enter the 2023-24 season with confidence. The reigning champions have a well-constructed roster that is hungry for a repeat title. Denver had countless bright spots from last season, many of which will continue to shine. Two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic leads the way with his incredible scoring, playmaking, and rebounding while Jamal Murray […]

Winning a championship in the NBA is hard, but defending that title and going back-to-back is much harder, although it is far from impossible. In this article, we will look at how teams have followed up their championship performance in the following season. The Denver Nuggets won the NBA Finals for the first time in […]

The NBA season is finally upon us! The reigning NBA Champions Denver Nuggets host Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers for the first action of the year. Continue with us for our NBA odds series with a Lakers-Nuggets prediction and pick. There is no better matchup to start the season. A rematch of last […]

The Denver Nuggets are fresh off an NBA Finals victory. It is no secret that superstar Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray led Denver to their championship. Stephen A. Smith took notice of the duo, ranking them atop his list of the best duos in the league heading into the 2023-24 season. “Jokic and Jamal Murray, […]

Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, despite coming off a season in which they steamrolled the opposition en route to winning the franchise’s first-ever championship, still face a ton of disrespect on the regular. One instance in particular stood out to many analysts and fans on Twitter. With the season set to open on Tuesday […]

Just over four months ago, the Denver Nuggets hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy into the air, celebrating their first NBA championship in team history. Now, they begin their quest to win another title, as the other 29 teams around the league look to prove they have what it takes to dethrone the champs. The 2023-24 […]

As the Mile High City eagerly awaits the tip-off of the 2023-24 NBA season, the Denver Nuggets find themselves at a pivotal point in their franchise history. Fresh off earning their franchise-first NBA Championship, Nikola Jokic and co. are still hungry for more. Are they poised to repeat as champions? Is this the start of […]

The Los Angeles Lakers took notice of the sentiments emanating from the Denver Nuggets in the aftermath of their Western Conference Finals sweep last June. Heading into a juicy opening night showdown, D’Angelo Russell, for one, believes his side is solely focused on getting the win and moving on. “Who cares?” Russell replied when asked […]

The defending NBA champions are set the raise their first banner. After winning the NBA Finals for the first time during the 2022-23 season, the Denver Nuggets will start off the NBA action for the 2023-24 season. They have the first game of the NBA Opening Night and will be taking on the rival Los […]

Collin Gillespie is technically entering his second year in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets. But he hasn’t played a single minute. Gillespie joined the Nuggets in the summer of 2022 after going undrafted as a fifth year player out of Villanova. He was signed to a two-way contract and suited up for the Nuggets during […]

On Tuesday evening, Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets will begin their NBA Championship title defense with a home game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Murray eviscerated the Lakers during the teams’ Western Conference Finals series in 2023, which Denver won in a four-game sweep en route to the championship, but the talented point guard […]

The Denver Nuggets are fresh off winning the 2023 NBA Finals, and on their way to winning a title, they had to get past the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. It was an interesting series for former Laker Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, but he’s been continually trash-talking the Lakers all offseason long, and he […]

Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray is an NBA champion and a bona fide young star in the league, but if that wasn’t his path in life, the Canadian sharpshooter says he would have given MMA and UFC a shot. “That’s just a skill that, like if I wasn’t playing basketball, I’d probably be in,” Murray […]

The NBA season is here, and plenty of teams hope for an NBA championship. We’re here to share our NBA odds series, make a 2023-24 NBA Finals winner prediction, and pick while detailing these teams. The Denver Nuggets won the 2023 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. Now, they will hope to repeat. But the […]

After winning the 2023 NBA championship, the Denver Nuggets found themselves looking to retool their bench. Head coach Michael Malone normally plays a tight rotation, but the Nuggets lost their top two bench options in Bruce Brown and Jeff Green to free agency. With Green in particular, he was the Nuggets backup big man and […]

Can you taste it basketball fans? With the NBA season literally days away, the excitement has officially reached its peak. In what has been historically a locked and loaded conference over the last several years, the 2023-2024 season will once again prove to be nutty in the wild, wild, west. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get […]

The 2023-24 NBA season is about to begin, and with it comes questions about how everything will play out. In June, the Denver Nuggets captured their first championship in team history, but will they be able to make it back to the NBA Finals? Perhaps the better question pertaining to the Nuggets revolves around the […]

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic has leaned into his persona of apathy, content with giving the media the impression that he could not care less about basketball, he just so happened to be good at it. And for a second, many believed that even New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum was fooled by this mask […]

Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets are currently preparing to begin their title defense when the NBA season tips off in just a few days. Although Jokic established himself as the undisputed best player (in most objective pundits’ eyes, at least) in the NBA after his recent postseason run with the Nuggets, some are already […]

The Denver Nuggets weren’t able to keep every piece from their championship roster together this offseason, but veteran guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is confident in the young replacements like Christian Braun coming up behind them, according to Mark Medina of Sportskeeda. “We did lose Bruce [Brown]. We did lose Jeff [Green]. But I feel like Christian […]

The Denver Nuggets don’t need any young players to breakout for the 2023-24 NBA season, as there’s plenty of talent on the roster surrounding Nikola Jokic. But that doesn’t mean one of Denver’s young players won’t breakout anyway. After earning trust last postseason and fitting in seamlessly next to the team’s core of stars, the […]

The NBA season is almost upon us, and the Northwest Division will look interesting. We’re here to share our NBA odds series and make a 2023-24 Northwest Division winner prediction while giving reasons. The Denver Nuggets won their division and promptly dominated in the playoffs on the way to their first title. Meanwhile, the Minnesota […]

There was no reason to believe that the Denver Nuggets organization was in any sort of turmoil entering the 2023-24 season, especially with Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray leading the way. But this past Monday morning, Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth made waves when he explained away his rationale for trading away Bones Hyland to […]

FanDuel currently has the Denver Nuggets with the third-best odds to win the 2024 NBA championship, despite entering the 2023-24 season as the defending NBA champions. The Nuggets sit behind the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics, who both made blockbuster moves to get better this offseason. Nonetheless, Denver still parades the best player in […]

Russell Westbrook is having fun out on the court just before Tuesday night’s preseason home game against the reigning NBA champions Denver Nuggets. The Los Angeles Clippers guard was captured on camera nailing a difficult shot from the left side of the court before running off the court and into the dugout full of excitement. […]

The Serbian basketball revenge tour could be coming in 2024 in Paris. Bozidar Maljkovic, who is the President of the Olympic Committee of Serbia, went on record during a recent interview with AS.com, that Denver Nuggets superstar big man Nikola Jokic will be part of the country’s hoops team in the 2024 Paris Olympics (h/t […]

Some things are better left unsaid. The Denver Nuggets and Bones Hyland already didn’t have the most amicable divorce, but general manager Calvin Booth might have just opened up some old wounds while explaining why he traded the young guard  to the Los Angeles Clippers. And in the process, he seemingly landed an indirect jab […]

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic is no stranger to knocking down incredibly difficult shots. On Sunday evening, the Nuggets hosted the Chicago Bulls as part of NBA preseason action, and early on Jokic reminded fans of just what a tough shot maker he is. Just seconds into the contest, Jokic found himself working in an […]

The search for a second title in franchise history continues for the one-two-punch of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Things are starting to look rough for the squad as they just wrapped up their second game in the NBA Preseason. The Denver Nuggets faced off against a middle-of-the-pack Eastern Conference team, the Chicago Bulls. Most […]

Former Kansas Jayhawk Christian Braun established himself as an important part of the Denver Nuggets’ rotation during the 2022-23 season, which resulted in a championship for Denver. Now, it seems that the Nuggets saw enough to want to keep Braun around for the long haul. On Tuesday, it was reported that the Nuggets will be […]

The defending NBA Champion Denver Nuggets did not have a very loud offseason. Of course, a team doesn’t need to right after they just won the whole thing. They lost their sixth man Bruce Brown to the Indiana Pacers in free agency. Heady veteran Jeff Green left town to head back to Houston to guide […]

Nikola Jokic is voted by various general managers in a survey by the NBA as most likely to win the Kia MVP award this season over the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, and others. Besides being predicted to win the award, the annual NBA GM survey also saw executives vote Nikola Jokic […]