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Videos: Top five trades in Denver Nuggets history

The NBA trade deadline is thirteen days away -- just enough time to quell that gnawing feeling in the gut telling you that, well, Kevin Garnett is old, and he has a lot of money left on that two-year contract, but he sure would shore up that interior defense. And, he would instantly be the most inte ... More >>

Andre Iguodala trade improves the Nuggets -- and makes the Lakers even better

You'd think the fact that a member of America's Olympic men's basketball team was traded amid its latest gold-medal run would be a headline item rather than a footnote. But the Nuggets' acquisition of Andre Iguodala late yesterday is parenthetical in a four-team deal that sends Dwight Howard to the ... More >>

Denver Nuggets' future bright-ish after valiant effort against Lakers

Early in the fourth quarter of game seven against the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday night, your Denver Nuggets held a four point lead over a team with two Hall of Famers on it. That moment showed the peak of the Nuggets' season and potential. The Lakers went on to win the game and thus, the series. Th ... More >>

Videos: Kobe Bryant clubs Kenneth Faried, but Nuggets rough up Lakers

Arguably the most memorable moment of last night's Nuggets-Lakers playoffs game saw ailing superstar Kobe Bryant fell rising rookie Kenneth Faried with a flagrant foul; see it and plenty of other video below. But this play was hardly symbolic of the contest as a whole. The Nugs, who once looked as d ... More >>

Video: JaVale McGee the hero (!) as Nuggets stave off Lakers, elimination

No denying it: After the Nuggets lost game four of their playoffs series against the Lakers at home on Sunday night, I thought they were doomed to another 4-1 first-round exit -- and I wasn't the only one. But stunningly, Denver managed to beat L.A. 102-99 in what was expected to be a close-out cont ... More >>

Cop rips media for crucifying Nugs court walker Savannah McMillan-Christmas

Update: Savannah McMillan-Christmas, the woman who walked onto the court during Sunday's Denver-L.A. playoff game, was originally reported to be a known stalker of Nuggets players. But as we wrote in an update on view below, this account has now been discredited -- and Denver Police spokesman Sonny ... More >>

Nuggets doom season with rise and fall home games against Lakers

Where there's life, there's hope -- but the Denver Nuggets don't have much of either right now. After making an energetic stand on Friday night to notch a 99-84 victory over the heavily favored L.A. Lakers at the Pepsi Center, the Nugs failed to build on this success, falling to the Lake Show 92-88 ... More >>

Photos: Laker Girls v. Nuggets Dancers in a head-to-head matchup!

Just as the Denver Nuggets are underdogs to the L.A. Lakers in their playoffs series, so, too, do the superstar Laker Girls seem to have the advantage over the hometown Nuggets Dancers. But how do these rival squads really match up? We've assembled the starting lineups (as well as the all-important ... More >>

Nuggets' moral victory still translates to loss versus Kobe Bryant, Lakers

After the Nuggets' desultory game one loss to the Lakers in their first-round playoffs matchup, there were legitimate questions about whether Denver even belonged in the same arena as Kobe Bryant and his L.A. crew. Game two was considerably less humiliating, with the Nugs making the Angelenos work a ... More >>

Nuggets-Lakers playoffs game 1: Ty Lawson comes up small, Andrew Bynum big

Last week, our Kyle Garratt assembled a list of five reasons why the Nuggets might upset the Lakers -- but during Sunday's humiliating 103-88 defeat in L.A., there appeared to be none. The Nugs' desultory performance was epitomized by Ty Lawson's awful game, but he was hardly the sole Denverite at ... More >>

Video: Kim Kardashian, Nuggets roasted at White House Correspondents' Dinner

Why were the Denver Nuggets name-checked by Jimmy Kimmel amid this weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner? After all, the get-together took place before the Nugs were blown out by the L.A. Lakers in game one of the playoffs. The explanation involves an elaborate joke whose target was none othe ... More >>

Denver Nuggets: Five reasons they might upset the L.A. Lakers in the playoffs

Kobe Bryant has three more championships by himself than the entire Nuggets roster. The Los Angeles Lakers have three of the best twenty players in basketball. The Lakers are 26-7 at home this year, second best in the league. Given that, will the Nuggets beat the Lakers in the first round of the pla ... More >>

Nuggets give themselves chance at life without World Peace with OKC win

How much respect are the Nuggets getting going into the playoffs? Well, the NBA.com video recap of last night's key victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder (it's on view below) is dominated by great OKC plays, including Kevin Durant's epic posterizing of JaVale McGee. But if the Nugs can take care of ... More >>

J.R. Smith about to hook up with Lakers, Twitter nemesis Kobe Bryant?

It seems like only yesterday that Denver Nugget J.R. Smith was calling out Kobe Bryant on Twitter. Now, however, it looks as if Smith and Bryant may become Los Angeles Lakers teammates -- and once again, Twitter appears to be bringing them together.

Nuggets playoff matchup: Should we root to face Kobe Bryant & Lakers, not Mavs or Thunder?

Ty Lawson​It would seem like a death wish to hope to play the two-time defending NBA champions in the first round of the playoffs. But given recent play, are the Lakers now the most desirable first-round opponent for the Nuggets? Probably not, but it's at least a question worth asking.

Should Nuggets try to lose to Thunder tonight in hopes of meeting Mavericks in playoffs?

Kevin Durant.​In all likelihood, Tuesday's Nuggets-Thunder slugfest was a playoff preview, since Oklahoma City's currently in the fourth position in the west and Denver's ensconced in the fifth. But OKC's only one game behind the Dallas Mavericks for the third slot, and the Nuggets, who just b ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony trade: NY Knicks mull Melo price as pressure builds on Lakers to make move

Carmelo.​Reports that Amare Stoudemire's toe injury had ratcheted up pressure on the Knicks to make a Carmelo Anthony trade happen apparently weren't enough to get a Melo deal done yesterday. Meanwhile, the Lakers' alleged interest in Melo has been denigrated as a non-story -- but after the La ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony trade: Nuggets using Lakers & Andrew Bynum to con Knicks into upping offer?

Carmelo.​Yesterday in Carmelo, all hell broke loose. Amid reports about a three-way Knicks, Nuggets and Timberwolves trade and direct talks between Knicks' owner James Dolan and Nugs boss Stan Kroenke, ESPN's Chris Broussard talked up a potential L.A. Lakers swap, with Andrew Bynum as the main ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony trade: Can L.A. Lakers challenge New York Knicks for Melo's services?

Carmelo.​The New York Knicks' expected hiring of Mark Warkentien, formerly the Nuggets' general manager, to a consultancy gig has most NBA observers convinced that Carmelo Anthony is headed to his dream city of New York. But now, with the Los Angeles Lakers publicly talking about a trade to im ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony vs. Kobe Bryant: Nuggets win over Lakers shows what might -- but won't -- be

Carmelo.​Carmelo Anthony wasn't always at his best against the L.A. Lakers last night. He vacillated between focused/unstoppable and scattered/ineffective. But he came through when it mattered most, showing the NBA's most elite player, Kobe Bryant, that he belongs in the discussion of the leag ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony sign-and-trade to the L.A. Lakers? Please, God, no...

Carmelo Anthony, wanted man.​With the drama about where LeBron James would land finally resolved, NBA observers are speculating about possible destinations for Carmelo Anthony. Thanks to a wedding toast this past weekend, most prognosticators think that if Carmelo leaves Denver, he'll form a M ... More >>

Nuggets bound for first-round playoffs loss -- and deserve it

Carlos Boozer contemplates how good it'll feel to make the Nuggets eat shit.​The 2009-2010 season started out so promisingly for the Denver Nuggets that a lot of us looked at a Western Conference Finals rematch with the L.A. Lakers as a virtual lock. That's all over -- and not just because th ... More >>

Nuggets: Can they avoid being one and done against Utah Jazz?

Carmelo will have to do the heavy lifting -- as usual.​Tomorrow night, the Nuggets open the playoffs at home against the Utah Jazz -- but the squad's performance down the stretch didn't exactly inspire confidence. For much of the season, the Nugs looked like a lock for the number two slot, be ... More >>

Departure of Nuggets' Linas Kleiza leaves bigger hole than most fans acknowledge

Linas Kleiza.​The Denver Nuggets' loss yesterday of backup forward Linas Kleiza, who signed a two-year, $12.2 million deal with the Greek team Olympiakos, has prompted a collective shrug by most members of Nuggets Nation, probably owing to Kleiza's underperformance last season, when many obser ... More >>

Lamenting the title of Rhino's latest box set: Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets

And the award for the most unfortunately named release of the year goes to... drum roll, please ... Rhino Records. Just under a month after the crushing elimination of our Denver Nuggets from the NBA Western Conference Finals, comes word of a box set being issued by the folks at Rhino titled Where t ... More >>

Kobe Bryant: Nuggets' public enemy number one

So... does knowing that your Denver Nuggets lost in the NBA's Western Conference Finals to the eventual champs, the L.A. Lakers -- and put up more of a fight than did the Orlando Magic -- make the way the Nugs' season ended a little less painful. No. Not at all. But it does give the Nuggets more ... More >>

Q&A with Built to Spill's Doug Martsch

Photo by Autumn DeWildeDoug Martsch, foreground, and the rest of Built to Spill. Doug Martsch, whose band, Built to Spill, headlines this year's Westword Music Showcase on June 12 (click here for more details), is a rarity -- a indie-rock musician who signed to a major label in the mid-'90s who's s ... More >>

Calling Dwight Howard: Here's why you can avenge the Nuggets

Yes, I know that the Nuggets-beating Los Angeles Lakers are supposed to school Orlando in the NBA finals series, which begins tonight. But although I'd have to give the edge to the Lakers, too, I'm not ruling out a sweet, ever-so-satisfying Magic victory. No doubt the refs will give every advantag ... More >>

Another sex dispute between a Colorado woman and an L.A. Laker

Shannon Brown, in an image from his MySpace page. Maybe Los Angeles Lakers players should keep it zipped when they visit Denver. Earlier this decade, Kobe Bryant spent month after month in legal hell after a woman said he'd sexually assaulted her, precipitating a media free-for-all in Eagle County ... More >>

Surviving the Denver Nuggets' down-and-up weekend

J.R. Smith. To be a fan of the Denver Nuggets -- even the new, improved Denver Nuggets -- is to risk cardiac arrest on an all-too-regular basis. Saturday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers would have put the Nugs in a commanding position, and they seemed to have everything going for them - ... More >>

Does the Staples Center have to be a house of horrors for the Nuggets?

A Flickr photoWhere the Nuggets will be playing Tuesday night. 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 compe ... More >>

The pros and cons for the Nuggets of last night's Houston Rockets win

A Flickr photoKobe shoots and (probably) scores. 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, comma ... More >>

Next stop Kobeville for the Nuggets

A Flickr photoKobe Bryant and Kenyon Martin -- or a reasonable facsimile. 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 Dalla ... More >>

Clip and save: Nuggets take game five, polish off Mavericks

In the past few days, Mark Cuban has been dancing without the stars. 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 -- ... More >>

Nuggets don't just kill in game four -- they assassinate

The strange confidence that inspired me to write a blog yesterday entitled "Why the Nuggets Will Win Game Four Against the Hornets Tonight" was more than justified by the team's historic performance last night. By any objective measure, the game was horrible -- but I reveled in every glorious minu ... More >>

Overconfidence = kiss of death for Nuggets, fans

A Flickr photoWill the Pepsi Center offer a real home-court advantage this year? Yesterday afternoon, Jim Armstrong and Sandy Clough were talking Denver Nuggets on FM 104.3/The Fan, and while the hosts kept the team's playoff chances in perspective, many of the callers weren't concentrating on the ... More >>

Pardon the Interruption Offers a Moment of Silence for the Nuggets

How Much of the Nuggets' Playoff Flop is Melo's Fault?

Best Trial in the Court of Public Opinion

Denver Nuggets v. Los Angeles Lakers, January 7, 2004

Pop Quiz

The Kobeat Goes On
February 5, 2004

Pop Quiz

Kobe's big adventure

January 15, 2004

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 14, 2003

The Message

Welcome to Kobeville

Off Limits

With friends like these...

Phil's Big Scores

Anshutz's domain stretches from kids' theater to pro sports.

Into the Light

The Jurassic 5 make a heroic ascent from the hip-hop underground.

Is There Life After Mike?

A MAGIC BULLET FOR AIDS

BASKET CASES

THERE GOES MR. JORDAN