NBA Pacific Division

Denver Blogs: Will Carmelo Anthony's ankle finally heal already?

"I like making you wait."​More Denver blogs for your infotainment. In his preview of tonight's matchup between your Denver Nuggets and the Sacramento Kings, Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein writes, "If the Nuggets can get a fresh Melo back tonight, we'll be looking at thirteen wins in sixteen ... More >>

Denver Nuggets: NBA team or MASH unit?

J.R. Smith lines up what proved to be the winning free throw against the Warriors.​Once a year, I get to use Westword's season tickets to watch a Nuggets game -- and I was lucky enough to have drawn last night's matchup against the Golden State Warriors, when Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Trade Kenyon Martin for Shaquille O'Neal? Are you kidding?

I'd rather have Ben Stein suit up for the Nuggets than Shaq.​Colorado blogs that fulfill the USDA recommended amount of cyber. Andrew Feinstein at Denver Stiffs floats the possibility of the Nuggets trading Kenyon Martin for Shaquille O'Neal, who's dragged down both Phoenix and Cleveland in r ... 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 >>

WWE snubs Pepsi Center in Denver return

A WWE image pimping a May "faceoff" between angelic "Vince McMahon" and devilsh "Kroenke."​In May, World Wrestling Entertainment showman Vince McMahon got publicity aplenty when a WWE Raw event was bumped from the Pepsi Center by a playoff game between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles La ... 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 >>

Nuggets: Let's remember the good times -- and try to forget about tonight

A Flickr photo....aargh.... As I write this blog, the Nuggets are down by 24 points to the Los Angeles Lakers with 1:36 to go in game six of the Western Conference finals -- playing out the string in the kind of loss we'd come to expect in previous years, but had thought the Nugs had finally manage ... 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 >>

Vince McMahon takes on faux-Stan Kroenke's killer toupee

The McMahon-Kroenke smackdown -- captured in the "Raw." True Nuggets fans didn't watch last night's edition of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw, in which Nugs owner Stan Kroenke and the ballers on his payroll were spoofed by WWE's Vince McMahon and his unitard-clad minions -- an act of revenge/p ... 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 >>

The idea of Shaquille O'Neal as a Nugget becomes an inaugural-concert laugh line

During last night's Kids' Inaugural concert, a Michelle Obama-hosted bash for military families and Washington, D.C.-area children that was nationally broadcast on the Disney Channel, performers such as Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers shared spotlight time with an extended video package shot in ... More >>

3OH!3 might be on TNT tonight

The Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns square off tonight at the Pepsi Center for a nationally televised broadcast on the TNT cable network. The 3OH!3 crew will be in the house presenting the game ball at the start of the game while the Nuggets team will run out to to their hit song, "Don't Trust M ... More >>

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Down Is Up

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Best Trial in the Court of Public Opinion

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Pop Quiz

The Kobeat Goes On
February 5, 2004

Pop Quiz

Kobe's big adventure

January 15, 2004

High Hopes

The Nuggets have finally begun to warm up the faithful.

Tally-Ho, Carmelo

The Nuggets are ready to ride the new kid in town.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 14, 2003

The Message

Welcome to Kobeville

Off Limits

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Off Limits

Stop-and-gonad traffic

Letters to the Editor

From the week of November 28, 2002

Phil's Big Scores

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Into the Light

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

Foul Shots

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McNichols on Ice

Men (and Women) Behaving Badly

All Choked Up

Is There Life After Mike?

The Fat Lady Is Singing

The National Billionaires Association

A MAGIC BULLET FOR AIDS

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THERE GOES MR. JORDAN

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