Tag: Christian Braun
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From Boulder to LA: What to watch for in Denver Nuggets preseason | NBA Insider
Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room: NBA Insider Preseason will take the Nuggets from Boulder to Utah, and back to Colorado for a game at Ball Arena before a two-game trip to Los Angeles. The Nuggets announced their preseason slate Tuesday, which starts with…
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Projecting the Nuggets’ rotation to start the season | NBA Insider
Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room: NBA Insider After sending Peyton Watson to Cleveland and adding DeMar DeRozan on a minimum contract, the Nuggets roster could be set to start next season. The Nuggets have 14 players on standard contracts, the same number they…
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Denver Nuggets’ roster depth chart after free agency | NBA Insider
Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room: NBA Insider The Nuggets roster construction is clearer after a couple of signings over the weekend. The additions of rookie Trevon Brazile and Alpha Diallo — technically a rookie, though he’s 29 — bring the Nuggets to 12…
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How the Denver Nuggets run a year-round global scouting process for the NBA draft
Scouting hardly stops for Scott Howard and Jim Clibanoff. The NBA draft starts with Tuesday’s first round and ends after Wednesday’s second round. Then, Howard, the Nuggets’ director of college scouting, is headed abroad. “Two days later, I leave to go to Turkey,” Howard told The Denver Gazette. While there might be time to sneak…
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Mark Kiszla: Why Nuggets’ chronic injury woes are desperate cry for help
If it hurts the broken-down Nuggets to watch the NBA Finals from the sofa as much as it torments them to play basketball on the court, then shouldn’t Job 1 for Denver be painfully obvious? Heal thyself. Too often, this team’s starting five is in no shape to make a championship run. That’s more than…
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From David Adelman to Peyton Watson, 5 takeaways from Nuggets’ press conference | Vinny’s take
There were plenty of verbal lines to read between the lines when the Nuggets’ top executives and coach convened Friday at Ball Arena. Team president Josh Kroenke, executive vice president of basketball operations Ben Tenzer, executive vice president of player personnel Jon Wallace and coach David Adelman were smart enough not to show their entire…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Trade Jamal Murray? That’s the last thing Nuggets should do.
If I’m running the Nuggets, I would start restructuring the roster by shipping Jamal Murray to the Boston Celtics for Jaylen Brown. – Eric, Charleston, S.C. Kiz: Please allow me to be the voice of reason by shouting: Don’t trade Murray! What should the Nuggets do instead? Recognize that Murray isn’t a true point guard.…
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Mark Kiszla: ‘Joker Halo Effect’ trapped the Nuggets in luxury tax
The miracle of Nikola Jokic that brought Denver a long-sought championship also landed the Nuggets in the mess they’re stuck in now. Joker is too great for the team’s own good. While that might sound crazy, his generational talent fooled Stan and Josh Kroenke into believing they had a core worthy of being a perennial…
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Where the Denver Nuggets go after first-round disaster | Vinny’s take
Denver’s front office is stuck between a mountain and a hard place. Executive vice president of player personnel Jon Wallace and executive vice president of basketball operations Ben Tenzer did a lot of things right on paper last year, even if vice chairman Josh Kroenke got the love in the Executive of the Year voting.…
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Nikola Jokic says ‘in Serbia, we all get fired,’ but reaffirms commitment to Nuggets after Game 6 defeat
MINNEAPOLIS — An offseason that started much sooner than the Nuggets hoped or expected got off to a positive start. Mere minutes after Denver’s season ended with a 110-98 loss to the Timberwolves in Game 6 of a first-round series Thursday at Target Center, The Denver Gazette asked Nikola Jokic if coming up short of…