Author: Woody Paige
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Woody Paige: Rockies channel Nuggets’ late-game, heroic example
Denver beats Miami. That is not only a prediction; it’s a result. The Rox overcame themselves and the Marlins on Thursday afternoon in the bottom of the ninth inning to win three of four in the series. Three victories in the first or last four games of the other series between Denver and Miami would…
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Woody Paige: 47 years of disrespect for the Nuggets is swept away
“I–think–I can, I–think–I can … I-thought-I-could, I-thought-I-could.’’ — “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper The Nuggets thought they could scale the mountain, and the Little Team That Could, would. The arduous journey has taken 47 seasons, and Our Little Old Dusty Cowtown’s disrespected, disparaged, dissed basketball team from the disregarded time zone, at…
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Woody Paige: Nuggets, Heat destined to steal top spots
The Nuggets are 3-Oh, Yes! The Lakers are 0-No! With a three-minute, 13 to zero, zilch, zippo zoom in the fourth quarter the Nuggets ran the Lakers into submission Saturday night to take command of the Western Conference Finals. No NBA team in history has overcome a 3-0 playoff deficit. Famed actor Jack Nicholson, who…
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Woody Paige: When Lakers’ best just wasn’t good enough
The Lakers won two moral victories in Denver. The Nuggets won two real victories. The Lakers tried their best to blow out the Nuggets, but in the end Jamal Murray and the Nuggets did their best and wore out the Lakers. For the first time in eight NBA playoff series with the Lakers over 44 years,…
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Woody Paige: Nikola Jokic makes like Denver’s Molly Brown in Game 1 triumph over Lakers
Joker’s wild. In Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, Nikola Jokic finished with 34 points, 21 rebounds, 14 assists and two blocks — and finished the game with 3 of 4 free throws and 1 significant steal. Molly Brown, whose former home is just several blocks away from The Jar, was unsinkable. Nikola Jokic…
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Woody Paige: Nuggets ready to shake off dust of losses to Lakers
Our Poor Ol’ Dusty Cowtown and Mile High Tent City has reached the big time at the right time in prime time with 6:30 p.m. MDT starts in the wild, wild Western Conference, and Comcast, Stan Kroenke, the NBA and the networks can’t keep the Nuggets off TV and national telecasts (including on ABC Saturday)…
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Woody Paige: Joker turns in another sensational, Chamberlain-like showing
The Gold Rush in the West propelled the Nuggets Thursday night to the NBA conference finals. It was Sundown for Phoenix. And The Joker belongs in the constellations with The Big Dipper. Nikola Jokic has been Wilt Chamberlain-like in the playoffs. Thursday night he was 13 of 18 from the field, while in the paint…
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Woody Paige: Joker turns in another sensational, Chamberlain-like showing
The Gold Rush in the West propelled the Nuggets Thursday night to the NBA conference finals. It was Sundown for Phoenix. And The Joker belongs in the constellations with The Big Dipper. Nikola Jokic has been Wilt Chamberlain-like in the playoffs. Thursday night he was 13 of 18 from the field, while in the paint…
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Woody Paige: Denver Nuggets bring the heat on Suns, Mat Ishbia, ‘Midnight Mel’
What can Brown do for the Nuggets? Deliver! When the Nuggets would have a letdown or let up on the Suns Tuesday night Bruce Brown of the bench would bring it. Browns outscored the Suns reserves by himself, 23-16. With 3:31 left in Game 5 the man who can play all five positions also had…
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Woody Paige: Lot of new faces for Broncos, but familiar mugs will fill starting slate
Whoa! Hold your horses. The fumes from the unrestricted free agency period, the draft and the undrafted free agent signings have dissipated, and the Broncos now have almost 100 players on their roster. But the Broncos brass will scrutinize more than 30 potential prospects in a four-day treasure hunt minicamp beginning Friday. In the new…