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Portland’s big man and former 16th pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, Jusuf Nurkic has had a rocky path coming to the NBA. The Bosnian international actually got his first steps in basketball because of his dad, and there is a crazy story behind it. His father was a police officer in a small town in Bosnia, […]

After missing nearly a month since his non-displaced fracture of the right fibula, Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic returned from injury for Game 3 of the first-round best-of-seven series against the Golden State Warriors. The big bruiser played only 17 minutes in the game and had a game-high 11 rebounds, but seem limited, unable […]

The Golden State Warriors will enter Game 3 of their best-of-seven first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers shorthanded, as they will be without forward Kevin Durant (calf strain) and head coach Steve Kerr (illness), according to the team. Rookie forward Patrick McCaw will take Durant’s place in the lineup, while assistant coach Mike Brown […]

Center Jusuf Nurkic will once again be absent from the Portland Trail Blazers lineup for Wednesday’s Game 2 vs. the Golden State Warriors, according to Joe Freeman of the Oregonian. The 7-foot bruiser was seen taking part in shootaround at the end of the regular season and early before Game 1, but announced today he won’t […]

Facing insurmountable odds in the first-round against the Warriors, the Portland’s daunting task of actually upsetting the Warriors becomes that much more difficult in Game 1 as Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic will not be available to play. Jusuf Nurkic (right leg) will not play in Game One — Casey Holdahl (@CHold) April 16, 2017 Nurkic suffered […]

One of the Portland Trail Blazers‘ key spark plugs could be sorely missed throughout the first round of the NBA playoffs, as Jusuf Nurkic‘s return from a nondisplaced right leg fracture is still uncertain, according to a report from the Associated Press. The midseason acquisition has fit right into the starting lineup and given Rip City […]

Ever since he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, Jusuf Nurkic hasn’t spoken too fondly of his former team, the Denver Nuggets. Nurkic has never disparaged his former teammates and has always said nice things about them. But, when it comes to the organization’s decision to bench him, Nurkic subtly threw a few shots […]

The Portland Trail Blazers will be without their spark plug center Jusuf Nurkic until his re-evaluation in two weeks, the team announced on Friday night. An MRI confirmed Nurkic suffered a non-displaced fracture of the right fibula, though it is unclear when the injury took place. The 7-footer was key in Thursday’s 117-107 win over […]

NBA players know they’ve made it when they get name checked in a song. Or in Blazers big man Jusuf Nurkic‘s case, get an entire song devoted to you. Nurkic has been just sensational since getting traded to the Trail Blazers right before the NBA’s trade deadline in February. He is averaging a double-double with 15.2 […]

By trading Jusuf Nurkic to the Portland Trail Blazers, the Denver Nuggets — as DJ Khaled would say — played themselves. The latest example of this occurred on Tuesday, thanks to Nurkic’s career night of 33 points and 16 rebounds, the Blazers defeated the Nuggets 122-113. Denver is now a game back of Portland for the […]

Following his unceremonious exit from the Denver Nuggets during last month’s trade deadline, Jusuf Nurkic had a chip on his shoulders and wanted to prove them wrong for trading him. He had anxiously waited for the Portland Trail Blazers‘ to play against his former team, and on Tuesday night, the time had finally come. With the […]

The NBA trade deadline this season is on February 23  at 3 p.m. ET. Denver Nuggets management is openly shopping their big man Jusuf Nurkic in a possible trade before the deadline, and Atlanta could be a destination. Via ESPN’s Marc Stein: “Denver engaged in serious talks to acquire Millsap last summer and is known to be […]

The Denver Nuggets started the season with the mindset of starting two big bodies in the frontcourt, establishing the twin Indo-European towers of Nikola Jokic and Jusuf Nurkic. As nature has it, one of them has performed better than the other in the eyes of head coach Michael Malone, which has prompted Jokic to step […]

Kenneth Faried has found himself the odd man out in the big man carrousel that is the Denver Nuggets. The 6-foot-8 power forward will come off the bench for the first time in five years, according to Chris Dempsey of the Denver Post. Kenneth Faried will be a reserve, and Malone has said Manimal's been […]

Following the Denver Nuggets 108-106 preseason win against the Toronto Raptors on Monday, head coach Michael Malone was full of praise for his European big man combination of Jusuf Nurkic and Nikola Jokic, as per Harrison Wind of BSN Denver. “There’s definitely some Balkan buddy ball going on with those two guys,” said Malone. “They do look for […]

It’s the middle of September, the NBA off-season is coming to an end, training camp is yet to begin and in terms of significant action, basketball fans around the world have to look hard to get their fill. Well, look no further than the recent EuroBasket 2017 qualifier game between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia. […]