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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 […]

The NBA’s general managers have spoken: the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics are title favorites ahead of the 2023-24 season. Each year, GMs across the league anonymously answer 50 questions about the new season. And before the 2023-24 campaign officially begins on Tuesday, October 24, the league’s most knowledgeable officials predicted that either the Nuggets […]

Brendan Malone was a two-time champion as an assistant coach in the NBA and the father to recent NBA champion head coach Michael Malone of the Denver Nuggets. On Tuesday, the team announced that Brendan had passed away at the age of 81. pic.twitter.com/xUCcy7WCe8 — Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) October 10, 2023 “It is with tremendous […]

Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns are going all-in for their first-ever championship. The Suns traded for three-time All-Star Bradley Beal in June to pair with Booker and Kevin Durant to create the NBA’s best scoring trio. Phoenix is looking to upend the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets, who it lost to in six games […]

Head coach Michael Malone and the Denver Nuggets are looking to expand upon what they accomplished in 2022-23, when they won the franchise its first-ever NBA championship. While the Nuggets are mostly bringing back the same core that won the title a year ago, Malone knows that they will have to be even sharper if […]

Michael Porter Jr. has proven to be the X-factor for the Denver Nuggets. His three-point shooting skills, as well as his rebounding awareness, helped the Nuggets capture their first championship in team history this past season. He is once again a very important piece in their title pursuit entering the 2023-24 season. Denver has set […]

After winning the 2023 NBA championship, Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone took some very subtle shots against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. James wasn’t born yesterday; he knew that they were the objects of the Nuggets’ banter even if their names weren’t explicitly said, and as such, The King is coming into […]

Getting an NBA championship as a head coach does not always guarantee glory. Michael Malone has been building his schematics around Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic for a long while now. He finally got rewarded as the only coach to have ever won a championship with the Denver Nuggets. Fans would think so highly of […]

The bad blood between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets is still very much alive. The first game of the 2023-24 NBA season has yet to be played, but the two sides have already seemingly taken subtle shots at each other. After learning of Lakers big man Anthony Davis’ burning desire to meet […]

Four months ago, it was the Denver Nuggets that hoisted their first-ever Larry O’Brien Trophy by defeating the Miami Heat in five games of the NBA Finals. Roughly three weeks away from beginning their championship defense, can the Nuggets become the first franchise to go back-to-back since the Golden State Warriors in 2017-2018? Almost instantaneously, […]

The Denver Nuggets earned their first-ever NBA championship victory in 2023. The Nuggets have finished their celebrating and now have their sights set on defending their title during the 2023-24 season. As NBA champions, 29 other NBA teams now have the Nuggets in their crosshairs. While repeating as champions isn’t impossible, it certainly will be […]

The Denver Nuggets’ secret to a Larry O’Brien trophy was always their team chemistry. Michael Malone could draw up all these insanely good schematics but it will never equal the intangibles that his team has. A huge testament to this would be Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic. The two have been a duo for the […]

The Denver Nuggets conducted Media Day interviews with their recently acquired Larry O’Brien Trophy placed front and center. With the trophy in full view, stars Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray already have their sights set on winning another championship. The Nuggets are fully aware that as champions, they are now fully in the crosshairs of […]

It’s every man’s dream to work for the least amount of time and be compensated with as much money as possible. Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic, when stripped of all his basketball genius and greatness, is just like all of humanity for real. Who could forget the time when, fresh off winning a championship, Jokic […]

The Denver Nuggets are in a territory they haven’t been ever before. For the first time in the Nuggets’ franchise history, they will be entering a season as the defending NBA champions. Winning a title is one thing, and successfully defending it is a completely different animal. Nuggets head coach Michael Malone is very much […]

Just like his Los Angeles Lakers teammates LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves has plenty of motivation heading to the opening night of the 2023-24 NBA season when they will face the Denver Nuggets. However, Colorado fans couldn’t stop mocking them for their latest comments. Lakers fired up vs. Nuggets "I think everybody knows […]

Deion Sanders’ popularity is having a resurgence this year as the head coach of Colorado football. It’s a challenge to escape from the media coverage Sanders and the Buffaloes are getting. All that being said, Denver Nuggets Nikola Jokic is still not on the Deion Sanders hype train. He seemingly has no idea about Sanders […]

Aaron Gordon and the Denver Nuggets are preparing to defender their 2022-2023 championship, and it won’t be easy with teams like the Lakers and Warriors gunning for them. The Nuggets will have to move forward without star defender Bruce Brown this season which draw a hilarious take from Nikola Jokic. Star guard Jamal Murray was […]

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic must not have January 14th circled on his calendar. That’s the day Indiana Pacers guard Bruce Brown will return to Denver to be presented with his 2023 NBA championship ring, that is, if Jokic doesn’t hide it from him first. At Denver’s media day, Jokic joked with reporters about stiffing […]

It looks like Anthony Davis has some extra motivation coming into the new season. Not that he needs more after the disappointing end to the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2022-23 campaign, but it surely helps to see AD with that added fire. Lakers fans will have to thank the Denver Nuggets for that, though. As every […]