DNVR: Welcome back to Nuggets basketball! Even with the last three seasons being packed so tightly together, you seem to be very ready to get back to basketball. Is that right? Katy Winge: Well, when you say I’m “ready”, I think what I’m ready for is that feeling of normalcy. I think that cliche, “you don’t know what you’ve got…...
IT’S THE WEEK OF AUGUST 13, 2018, six weeks before training camp would open, and over 1,400 miles away from the Nuggets’ practice court, the foundation for Denver’s 2018-19 season was laid. The venue was Paul Millsap’s state-of-the-art Core 4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia where for one week Denver moved its entire basketball operations department. During the day, spirited 5-on-5…
Instead of looking outside their organization to improve the team, the Nuggets’ brass looked inward.
On Wednesday afternoon around 24 hours before the NBA Draft, Josh Kroenke was in Las Vegas for the NHL Awards. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar was up for the Jack Adams award, which goes to the league’s top coach, and star centerman Nathan MacKinnon was a finalist for the Hart Trophy, which is given to the league’s Most Valuable Player. Kroenke had…...
The Denver Nuggets unveiled new uniforms Wednesday. When the black curtains covering the mannequins finally came off during halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, the group gathered at Dairy Block in LoDo got a look at some fresh colors and familiar numbers: 14, 27 and 15. It was no coincidence that the Nuggets’ rebranding effort featured jerseys belonging…...
“1-2-3….six weeks!” Remember that controversy? It was back on Feb. 28, 2015, when, at that time, the Denver Nuggets were coached by Brian Shaw and in dark and desperate times. So dark that they decided to break their huddle, heading into the fourth quarter against a division opponent nonetheless, with a chant that was essentially counting down the weeks until…...
The Kroenke family is donating $1 million “on behalf of their sports organizations and business entities” to the Red Cross to help assist in relief efforts of Hurricane Harvey.
In answering the headline to this column: If it walks like a duck… On Tuesday night, a person I consider not only a friend but for my money the best news reporter in the hockey business, Elliotte Friedman, dropped a pretty big news item between periods on “Hockey Night in Canada.” Specifically, that the Colorado Avalanche had asked for,…...
Five burning questions facing Josh Kroenke and Tim Connelly that the Nuggets' brass must answer over the remainder of this season
What signing Dwyane Wade would mean for the Denver Nuggets' direction today, tomorrow, and over the next couple of years as the landscape of the West continuously shifts.
The Nuggets reportedly almost dealt for the Hawks' Paul Millsap. How would he fit in Denver and how could the Nuggets still go about acquiring the 31-year-old?
Denver Nuggets President and Governor Josh Kroenke announces contract extensions of Tim Connelly and entire front office.
In this two part miniseries, we’ll examine Tim Connelly’s tenure with the Denver Nuggets and where his future should lead. Here in Part I we will focus on the history of the Nuggets front offices in the Stan and Josh Kroenke eras from 2000-present. Part II will focus on Connelly’s player acquisitions. As it stands now, of the 14…...
So much of your experience in life depends on how you see the world, which frame you chose to view things through, how you go about contextualizing events throughout your own personal history as well as those that appear in the news on a daily basis. You can chose to buy into what talking heads tell you to believe…...
Several days ago I detailed the Denver Nuggets’ botched handling of Ty Lawson in a diatribe which you can find here. The general thesis of my argument was that the Nuggets overvalued Lawson from the get-go and waited entirely too long to trade him. Though we’ve known Lawson has had intense off-court trouble for roughly the last six month,…...
A morning press conference in June has Nuggets brass, media, and fans hopeful for changes at Pepsi Center. They introduced their new head coach that should be able to bring a style that will better suit the Nuggets to be able to win in the playoffs. The above statement could be referring to the Nuggets introducing Michael Malone as…...
The search is over. The Denver Nuggets have reached an agreement to hire Michael Malone as coach, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 15, 2015 Mike Malone will be the next head coach of the Denver Nuggets. Malone interviewed with general manager Tim Connelly multiple times over the last few weeks and has landed the gig.…...
The Avalanche announced today that Greg Sherman has been named Senior Vice President of Business and Team Operations for the Colorado Avalanche. Sherman’s role with the Avalanche has changed many times throughout his tenure with the organization. The Denver native worked his way up through the organization over the past 14 years, reaching the pinnacle of the front office as…...
When the Nuggets fired Brian Shaw on March 3 there was still snow on the ground in Colorado, the Patriots still won the SuperBowl without cheating, seeding in the Western Conference was still up in the air and the Cleveland Cavaliers were still considered a work in progress. Three months later the Nuggets are still without a head coach.…...
With one NBA head coaching vacancy in Oklahoma City already filled, the pursuit to find a permanent head coach in Denver is heating up. After Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reported earlier this week that ex-Thunder head coach Scott Brooks is “likely to sit out next season,” Three names jumped to the front of Denver’s wish list. Melvin Hunt, Denver’s interim head coach last season,…...
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