Tag: Terry Rozier
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Friday Faceoff: Has legalized gambling ruined sports as we knew it?
Friday Faceoff: In the wake of the latest sports gambling scandal, and an FBI investigation featuring Denver’s own Chauncey Billups involving an illegal poker operation, has legalized betting ruined sports as we knew it? Kyle Fredrickson, Broncos beat reporter Answer: No Whatever happened to the virtue of personal responsibility? There are quite literally millions of…
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Chauncey Billups, a Denver icon, lets down Colorado | Vinny’s take
It was one of those sentences that kept getting stranger and stranger. Chauncey Billups? Rigged poker games? La Cosa Nostra? It looks like the legacy of the best basketball player to ever come from these hills is going to be severely tarnished. Billups was arrested Thursday morning after a yearslong federal investigation into illegal gambling…
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Nikola Jokic stays calm in clutch as Denver Nuggets defeat Charlotte Hornets
There were no surprises when Nikola Jokic carried the Denver Nuggets through crunch time in Monday’s 113-109 win over the Hornets in Charlotte. After LaMelo Ball made a 3-pointer that brought the Hornets within one with 4:07 to play, the Nuggets gave up just five points the rest of the way and made all six…