Tag: Michael Porter Jr.
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NBA Insider | One question for every Denver Nuggets starter
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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NBA awards: Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic early favorite for third MVP in four years
Last season, Nuggets star Nikola Jokic narrowly missed out on being the fourth player in NBA history to win three consecutive Most Valuable Player awards. The list remains a short one – Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird – after 76ers center Joel Embiid won last season’s award. This season, Jokic can join another short…
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Victim of fatal crash memorialized with sign near DU campus
There’s a new blue traffic sign at South University and Buchtel boulevards that reminds motorists to be careful driving through that intersection. The sign is a memorial to Katharina “Kathy” Rothman, a Denver mother who died there on a cold night in January. Rothman, 42, was driving an Uber fare when she was killed January…
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An ode to the Ball Arena NBA champs | Cronin and Loevy
Move over Molly Brown, John Denver and John Elway. It is time to make room for our newest Colorado celebrities: the 2023 Denver Nuggets professional basketball team. Two superstars with key role players just proved they are the best basketball team in North America and probably in the world. Who are these champions who have…
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‘It gives us something positive’: Nuggets mural on Colfax grows to four players
With just two hours to go before Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the mural artist Detour painted Michael Porter Jr.’s teeth ice-blue. In what is beginning to look like Denver’s own version of Mt. Rushmore, Detour — aka Thomas Evans — flirted with oncoming rainstorms to get Porter’s mound of black hair on the top…
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Jamal Murray leads Denver Nuggets to close out of Minnesota Timberwolves
The rain dousing Denver Tuesday night turned into Murray flurries after halftime. Jamal Murray’s scoring surge to start the third quarter kept the Nuggets in the game while Nikola Jokic and Michael Porter Jr. struggled to make shots early in Game 5 on Tuesday at Ball Arena. Murray finished with a game-high 35 points, making…
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Jamal Murray settles down, steps up for Denver Nuggets in return to NBA playoffs
Once the adrenaline wore off, Jamal Murray was able to enjoy a night nearly 1,000 days in the making. Sunday night at Ball Arena, Murray made his return to the playoffs after 932 days. The last playoff game Murray played was Game 5 against the Lakers back on Sept. 26, 2020, when the NBA was…
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Denver Nuggets second unit still being sorted out with nine games left in regular season
The three leading candidates for Most Valuable Player will be on the Ball Arena court in the next few days, but that’s of little concern to Michael Malone. The Nuggets welcome Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks to Denver for Saturday’s game before Joel Embiid, the current favorite to end Nikola Jokic’s MVP reign, and the…
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Nuggets notebook: Michael Porter Jr., Jamal Murray taking small steps forward; Right time for DeMarcus Cousins reunion
DENVER – Timelines remain indefinite, but Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray continue to take steps toward a return to the big court at Ball Arena. After Tuesday’s practice, both of Denver’s injured stars remained on the court in the practice gym for some extra work. Porter defended Davon Reed one-on-one for a stretch, while…
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Open roster spot has Denver Nuggets evaluating options ahead of this week’s trade deadline
DENVER – The time for the Denver Nuggets to decide what their roster will look like for the rest of the season is rapidly approaching. The Nuggets sit 29-24 after Sunday’s win over the Nets and will either be six or four games above .500 at Thursday’s trade deadline, depending on Tuesday’s result against the…