“Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best.” – Heraclitus I well remember where I was at the night that Halley’s Comet passed by earth in 1986, as I was just starting to fall in love with astronomy and astrophysics at the deepest dumb-it-down for me level. The rarity of the Halley’s event combined with…...

Cherish him. Enjoy him. Be thankful for him. You'll probably never see a better player wear a Nuggets jersey in your lifetime.

No one believes in the Nuggets with no Jamal Murray. That's perfectly fine with this group of underdogs.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington Life is designed to lull you to sleep. While you always want to think you’re giving your best in every circumstance, human beings are made to budget their energy. Whether it’s our brains glossing over repetitive tasks, or choosing to coast when we know we have…...

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” – Aristotle, sort of As a kid, I grew up watching a ton of cartoons, especially on Saturday mornings during my second or third giant bowl of Fruity Pebbles (don’t judge me). The capstone of my Saturday funfest was Voltron, a Japanese series that was rewritten and revoiced for American…...

The new-look Denver Nuggets took on the Atlanta Hawks Sunday night in their ‘Earned’ edition jerseys. Aaron Gordon and JaVale McGee were both active, and Gordon caught his first start in Paul Millsap’s place. With just one new player in the lineup, somehow, the Nuggets looked a completely different team. Suddenly teeming with size and athleticism, the starters rolled in…...

“You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “You can’t win if you don’t play.” – The Colorado Lottery In my fourth year of club soccer, our team had hit the apex of its possibility. We’d squeezed every bit of juice we could out of our current roster, and still couldn’t make things click. We…...

Live from the DNVR Bar on the corner of Colfax and York, the DNVR Nuggets share their thoughts on the Denver Nuggets’ win over the Indiana Pacers.Topics include: Facu Campazzo’s contagious energy Michael Porter Jr. continuing to rise Nikola Jokic’s 4th quarter dominance Jamal Murray breaking out of a slump Paul Millsap at power forward

“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – John W. Gardner Most tasks, no matter how complex they seem, can often be broken down into a series of simpler goals. This is especially true in professional sports, where complex sequences that seem outside the bounds of mere mortals can usually be broken down into more mundane bits and bytes. In…...

Nikola Jokic has been playing at an MVP level all season. Over the last month, Jamal Murray has also been at his best.

Jamal Murray has four career 19+ point fourth quarters. Three of those have come over Murray's last four games.

Inside a San Francisco hotel on the eve of the Nuggets' first preseason game, Nikola Jokic set the tone for Denver's upcoming season.

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” – Unknown “Stick with what you’re good at.” -Stephen King’s first publisher. And second… And… Stephen King’s first novel Carrie was released in 1974, and was immediately hailed for its storytelling and horror. Even with the plaudits, it was not an immediate…...

Michael Porter Jr. needed a bounce-back performance in the worst way. He got one Wednesday against the Cavs.

The Nuggets are hot right now, but so is most of the West. The guys weigh in on whether Denver is really all the way back.

Defenses can't decide how to guard Nikola Jokic this season. But you feel for them. There's really no good option.

1. People think of “chemistry” as an offensive attribute but is just as much a sign of familiarity and connection on the defensive end of the floor. In the clip below, Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic execute a great, quick switch back after Murray gets witched out onto a big. Plays like this as well as seamless rotations are a…...

“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience – waiting, and thinking and doing things right.” – Gary Paulsen My first gig in radio came after almost two years of interning (read: volunteering) at my favorite local station. I had doggedly put in 23 months of splicing, dicing, and vocal frying to finally find myself working the midnight-to-6am shift…...

Jokic’s second home over the last two seasons has been the Nuggets’ weight room.