Tag: Kevin Durant
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Peyton Watson out to realize potential, prove believers right in second season with Denver Nuggets
Peyton Watson has an impressive list of believers he’s looking to prove right in his second season with the Denver Nuggets Growing up as an elite prospect in Los Angeles, there was plenty of exposure to pros, especially in the summer. Kevin Durant and Paul George were some of the first big names to express…
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Aaron Gordon’s award tour takes Nuggets forward from China to Serbia to Boulder
No Nugget deserved a globe-spinning vacation more than Aaron Gordon. The assignments Gordon was responsible for during Denver’s playoffs ranged from the explosivity of Anthony Edwards to the size and skill of Karl-Anthony Towns and Kevin Durant and finished with the brute force of LeBron James and Jimmy Butler. All of that came after a…
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NBA Insider | One question for every Denver Nuggets starter
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Every week during the offseason, Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto will take you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets: The Denver Nuggets’ starting five is set, but there’s still some interesting questions to answer ahead of the start of the season. Jamal Murray: Can the regular season look like your postseasons? The highest-scoring…
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Denver Nuggets beat Brooklyn Nets behind Austin Rivers’ second-half surge
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Austin Rivers stepped up to the second-half challenge in the Nuggets’ 124-118 win over the Nets on Wednesday in Brooklyn. After what Michael Malone described as an “inexcusable,” close to the first half, which saw the Nets leading by 11, Denver’s coach said he challenged his team to turn things around in the second half.…