Tag: basketball
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Paul Klee: Warriors blast Nuggets, then Kevin Durant rubs salt in wound
DENVER • Be flattered. Take it as a compliment. Send a thank you to Oakland for once. The Warriors did the Nuggets a favor on Tuesday night. Two, actually. Hours before they wiped the Pepsi Center floor with the Nuggets, 142-111, Kevin Durant unlaced his custom “KD” sneakers and gifted them to Nuggets equipment manager…
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Paul Klee: Ex-UCCS, CU star Derrick White puts on a show in memorable homecoming
DENVER • Over there? In Section 106? That’s the college coach who saw something in Derrick White when no one else did. He’s Jeff Culver of UCCS, with his wife and kids, soaking in one of the great hoops stories Colorado’s ever seen. “For us, he had Alex Welsh. Really good player,” Culver says. “But…
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Paul Klee: Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray isn’t here to say ‘sorry’ to LeBron James and Lakers
DENVER • If tugging at the heart strings of Nuggets Nation was his goal, Jamal Murray is leaning into it with both hands on the cord. Too bad it’s not. He just doesn’t give a rip for the NBA’s established hierarchy. This is who he is: “I watched Kobe, Iverson, D-Rose back in the day.…
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Nuggets extend contract of coach Michael Malone
DENVER — The Denver Nuggets agreed a contract extension with coach Michael Malone, who was in the final season of a four-year deal. The team didn’t release details of the extension, but ESPN reported the extension was for two seasons. Under Malone, the Nuggets have gone from 33 wins in 2015-16, to 40 in ’16-17…
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Paul Klee: All aboard! How the Denver Nuggets hype train can stay on tracks
DENVER • Hope it doesn’t. Hope the carefree, eighth-grade humor that Nikola Jokic dispenses in endearing Serbian-English never goes away. Sports are fun, and the ton-of-fun 7-footer who headlines the latest Nuggets revival is a kick in the pants. Hope it never changes. Asked for his take on older brother Nemanja Jokic winning a recent…
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Paul Klee: The perfect Nuggets team for Colorado? This one — when they make the playoffs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • It hit me when Isaiah Thomas popped into a rookie’s interview at Nuggets media day and scored some laughs by feigning an answer: “Oh, I went to Kentucky! Sometimes we even went to class!” It hit me on Monday like a Mason Plumlee…
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Paul Klee: The perfect Nuggets team for Colorado? This one — when they make the playoffs
DENVER • It hit me when Isaiah Thomas popped into a rookie’s interview at Nuggets media day and scored some laughs by feigning an answer: “Oh, I went to Kentucky! Sometimes we even went to class!” It hit me on Monday like a Mason Plumlee screen: if someone were to request my ideal collection of…
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Isaiah Thomas agrees to 1-year deal with Denver Nuggets
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Free-agent guard Isaiah Thomas has agreed to a one-year, $2 million deal with the Denver Nuggets, league sources told ESPN. Thomas met with Tim Connelly, Denver’s president of basketball operations, and coach Michael Malone in…
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Discovery Canyon girls’ basketball standout Ashten Prechtel picks Stanford
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ashten Prechtel got her first recruiting letter from Stanford just after her freshman basketball season at Discovery Canyon. Monday, a phone call from the Cardinal coach ended her recruitment. Tara VanDerveer, the second women’s coach to reach 1,000 wins, called Prechtel earlier in the week…