Nuggets’ championship ring shines with love of 55-year quest by a father and son
Every championship ring tells a story, and this one was a 55-year quest by a father who never got to the top of the NBA heap until his son took …
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It’s kind of like National Treasure
The Nuggets locker room looked like a high school science class 30 minutes after their season opener. The lab assignment was a dissection, but nobody could could seem to figure …
Bow to the new king, LeBron James! Nikola Jokic, Nuggets are the Lakers’ daddies. And the world knows it.
Daddy 119, Lakers 107. “Who’s your dad-dy?” the fans cried as a line of LeBron James replica jerseys filed out of Ball Arena early Tuesday night. “Who’s your dad-dy?” The …
Nikola Jokic triple-double leads Nuggets past Lakers on ring night
After the first, Nikola Jokic let out an emphatic cry directed toward the rafters and the fresh championship banner hanging there. Only one quarter and one 3-point attempt into Denver’s …
Will Denver Nuggets repeat or be dethroned in 2023-24?
Kiz: When you’re the NBA champ, it’s not the champagne hangover that gets you, but the daily grind that makes it so hard to repeat. Here. We. Go. Starting Tuesday …
The ring validates a lot of things.
Cowtown, schmowtown! Ernie, Kenny, Chuck and Shaq are throwing a party on Speer Tuesday, and Denver’s invited. We’ve made it, kids. “Oh yeah, (Denverites) are NBA cool, without question,” Ernie …
Avalanche’s Fredrik Olofsson impressing in his adopted hometown
Fredrik Olofsson’s family moved around a lot when he was a child, but one four-year stop in San Jose meant going to Sharks games and skating with other youth hockey …
Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic “let outside noise” affect him last spring?
Jamal Crawford told me that Nikola Jokic got distracted last year. If that’s what “distracted” looks like, faith and begorrah. Could someone distract him some more? Please? “To be honest …
Why Denver Nuggets will, and won’t, repeat as NBA champions
A new NBA season means a new cycle of opining eight months into the future from basketball fans and talking heads. There are 82 games to play, but the question …
Only Nuggets can keep themselves from repeating
Chauncey Billups knows: The cliche is crapola. The harder part is faking it after you’ve made it. “The biggest thing, and me being in that position and having been there …