While watching the Orlando Magic’s 107-106 comeback win over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night, I saw connections aplenty between the Cavs and the Nuggets, who fell to the Lakers in a nailbiter they should have won 24 hours earlier. These had been the two top teams in this year’s NBA…
The Nuggets lost by two points last night in a very close game. Why? Well, a big part of it was unusually poor free-throw shooting from Chauncey Billups and company. My suggestion, then, is that the rest of the team start wearing Carmelo Anthony’s super-phresh shooting sleeve. You know, that…
The upper-righthand corner of today’s Denver Post announces, “Helton’s Day a Hit — No. 2,000,” echoing an article that topped the main sports section. An exciting accomplishment for Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, sure. But the fine print beneath this headline notes that he reached the milestone “in 8-1 loss”…
The Los Angeles Lakers’ 105-103 victory over the Nuggets last night was frustrating for longtime Nuggets observers to witness for several important reasons. The Nugs’ ran up sizable leads on a couple of occasions only to steadily give them back — a typical habit back in the day that this…
I said it first, but ESPN Sports Guy Bill Simmons probably said it best last night, questioning aloud on Twitter why Anthony Carter, the Nuggets’ shortest player on the floor, was impounding the ball with his team down two and just seconds to go: “How to Blow a Huge Game…
Update, 3:42 p.m.: In addition to the pro-Nuggets road painting, described below, Governor Bill Ritter is getting into the pre-playoff-game act. Here’s an excerpt from his agenda for the day: Joined by the Denver Nuggets dancers and team mascot Rocky, Gov. Ritter will proclaim May 2009 as “Nuggets May-nia” Month…
Allow us to help you navigate the blogosphere, Colorado style. Tips welcome here. A Nuggets blogger admits to hating the Lakers for as long as he can remember. Hope he doesn’t find out my favorite player of all time is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (Denver Stiffs) There are at least nine candidates…
Okay, now Patrick Roy is denying that he’s been offered the top coaching gig with the Colorado Avalanche, as the Denver Post has been reporting. Which probably doesn’t change anything. Maybe Roy simply doesn’t like the idea of current Avs coach Tony Granato being treated like a laundry sack filled…
See photos from the weekend — including, yes, those of midget wrestlers stapling money to each other — at westword.com/slideshow…
The Denver Post is reporting that Patrick Roy has received an offer to coach the Colorado Avalanche — and don’t worry that his delay in accepting a deal that’s been widely rumored for the better part of a week means he won’t sign up. In all likelihood, this pause is…
As predicted, the Los Angeles Lakers handled the Houston Rockets on Sunday, setting up a Western Conference finals matchup with your Denver Nuggets, who the Lakers have dominated in recent years. But even though the game was never competitive, the Lakers hardly looked invincible. Simply put, the Rockets had no…
Sometimes picking a shmuck is hard work. Sometimes the world presents you with such a vast sample tray of worthy shmucks, you have to employ a team of PhDs to measure their shmuckiness. On other, rarer occasions, the calendar presents a virtually shmuck-free week, and you’re left to pick Bob…
The Dallas Mavericks are in the Nuggets’ rear-view at this point — but Mavs owner Mark Cuban continues to make comments sure to rev up the rivalry again next year. As a guest on Dan Patrick’s syndicated radio show, Nugs coach George Karl complained about some of the invective that…
Now that the spittle-flecked anger has died down from the whole Jay Cutler-to-the-Bears brouhaha, how do NFL prognosticators rate your Denver Broncos in the months prior to the start of the 2009-2010 season? Not very highly, to say the least. This week, Adam Caplan, who writes for Scout.com (a Fox…
Watching the Houston Rockets-Los Angeles Lakers game last night caused this particular Nuggets fan an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. Like the Nugs have done for ages (until, for the most part, this year), the Rockets blasted off to an early, commanding, seemingly insurmountable lead only to gradually but steadily…
As a lifelong Nuggets fan, I’ve grown accustomed over the years to waiting for the team to blow leads. But I don’t think I’ve ever been so zen about the Nugs as last night, during their series-clinching victory over the Dallas Mavericks. My confidence was so high going in that…
What made LaLa Vasquez, the former MTV star who’s Carmelo Anthony’s fiancée, so unbelievably angry during the last Nuggets-Mavericks contest? She offers her explanation in the following statement: LaLa Vazquez became distressed during a heated playoff game, after being verbally attacked by some opposing fans, who were using racial slurs,…
During last night’s late newscast, 9News’ Drew Soicher said that if the Nuggets manage to blow their series against the Dallas Mavericks, blamecasters will suggest that Mavs owner Mark Cuban got into their heads via his antics — namely trash-talking about Kenyon Martin to his mom on Mother’s Day weekend…
(UPDATE: The video above, which I just saw on Deadspin, seems to support Cuban’s thug theory). Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has finally apologized to Kenyon Martin and Kenyon Martin’s mom — sort of. Cuban, who apparently called Mrs. K-Mart’s son a “thug” after game three, writes on his blog this…
On April 6, opening day for the Colorado Rockies, I predicted that the team would only win 72 games this season — and based on their performance thus far, they’ll have to step it up considerably to reach even that mediocre total. No wonder Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman suggested this…
Yeah, yeah, given the non-call that helped the Nuggets win game three of their playoff series against the Mavericks on Saturday, complaining about the officiating in the Mavs’ 119-117 victory last night seems churlish. But there’s no denying that the outcome bore the fingerprints of the NBA’s most intrusive referee,…
The Colorado Avs managed to work their way back onto the first pages of sports sections in recent days by leaking info about a meeting between legendary goalie Patrick Roy and Avs president Pierre Lacroix, presumably spurred by the open general manager position — and the excitement this news generated…
