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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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How Spencer Jones’ contract affects Peyton Watson’s future | NBA Insider
Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room: NBA Insider The smaller of Denver’s dominoes in restricted free agency fell Sunday. The Nuggets decided to match the two-year contract worth $12 million that Oklahoma City offered reserve forward Spencer Jones over the weekend. That leaves Peyton…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: LeBron James is ‘King’ who would’ve been royal pain for Nuggets
At this point, the Nuggets should do absolutely nothing to their roster. Anything they do isn’t going to improve the team. Getting rid of “guys” to bring in other “guys” does nothing more than put a coat of paint on the house. It might look different, but it’s still the same house. – Joe, too…
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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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Nuggets need to make a run at LeBron James | Vinny’s take
There’s one good reason the Nuggets are yet to make a move 24 hours into free agency. If LeBron James has any interest in playing his 24th NBA season in Denver, the Nuggets need to wait for James to make his call before going forward on other moves. James reportedly informed the Lakers he would…
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Denver Nuggets need to make run at LeBron James | Vinny’s take
There’s one good reason the Nuggets are yet to make a move 24 hours into free agency. If LeBron James has any interest in playing his 24th NBA season in Denver, the Nuggets need to wait for the King to make his call before making any other moves. James informed the Lakers he would be…
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Swapping Jamal Murray, Jaylen Brown doesn’t address Denver Nuggets’ needs | Vinny’s take
A trade built around a Jamal Murray-for-Jaylen Brown swap makes sense for Boston – not for Denver. Brown’s situation in Boston is bordering on untenable. Coming off a season where he led the Celtics to the two seed in the Eastern Conference as the team’s lone star for most of the season, the 29-year-old’s name…
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Nuggets make a decision on Jalen Pickett’s option
The Nuggets took their time before deciding not to pick up Jalen Pickett’s team option for next season. Denver used about as much time as possible ahead of Monday’s deadline before determining to let the 26-year-old reserve guard become a free agent. Pickett was due $2.4 million next season. The 6-foot-2 guard was selected with…
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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…