The Starting Lineup

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Three must-see events this week:

1. New York Mets at Rockies (1:10 p.m. Sunday, Rockies.TV) — On Autograph Sunday, Rox players and coaches sign for fans at the bottoms of Sections 116-120 from 11:40 a.m.-Noon.

2. Game 2, NBA Finals (6 p.m. Sunday, ABC) — Did Indiana’s stunner in Game 1 remind you of Denver’s Game 1 win at Oklahoma City? Memo to the Pacers: the Thunder beat the Nuggets in Game 2 by 43.

3. U.S. Open (first round, 4 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, USA) — Sign us up for brutal tests of golf, and the 2007 Open at Oakmont Country Club was won by Angel Cabrera… at 5-over par.

Numbers game

12 — wins for John Elway in his second season as the quarterback of the Broncos, who aim to avoid a sophomore slump for Bo Nix. The Denver Gazette’s Kyle Fredrickson examines NFL sophomore slumps Sunday.

Box office

$29 — for a practice-round ticket at the U.S. Senior Open at The Broadmoor June 25-29. Unsure which day you’ll watch Aurora’s Mike Kitowski, 50, the youngest player in the field, or Pueblo’s Mike Zaremba, 71, the oldest? Score a $59 any-day ticket (broadmoor.com).

On this day

Happy birthday, Allen Iverson, who turned 50 Saturday. The Answer’s highest scoring season with the Nuggets was 30.4 points, in 2007-08. What would he average alongside Nikola Jokic?

They said it

“If Cherry Hills was at sea level, they would have a U.S. Open every 10 years.”

—Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion and ESPN analyst, to The Denver Gazette’s Chris Schmaedeke for a must-read Golf Insider coming next week