Denver Nuggets

Maybe the Denver Nuggets won’t go superstar-hunting this summer after all. Danilo Gallinari owns a player option worth $16.1 million for next season that he is expected to decline. If the Nuggets renounce his cap hold, they can squeeze out more than $34 million in cap space—enough to offer almost anyone a max contract. Waive [...]

Though Paul George remains with the Indiana Pacers following the NBA’s trade deadline, the Denver Nuggets did their darnedest to make him one of their own. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Chris Haynes: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834842800067792897] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834843094398824448] It’s unclear what the Nuggets were offering, but according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, they were reluctant to include [...]

ESPN’s Marc Stein reported Monday afternoon that the Nuggets are actively trying to move 22-year-old bruising center Jusuf Nurkic. [tweet https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/822488034809524224] Nurkic has flashed some real potential as a big man who can patrol the paint and bang down low with his energy and his ability to score with an old-school back down post-up game [...]

In the wake of a recent trade rumor, Will Barton has declared his allegiance to the Denver Nuggets. Here’s what the 25-year-old said, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: “It’s tough but you hear a lot of stuff going around,” Barton told The Denver Post. “I don’t pay any attention to it, I try not [...]

Are the Sacramento Kings tanking to end the 2015-16 regular season, or are they just really bad? Is it both? Sacramento has won its last two games and is currently in a three-way tie with the Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets for the eighth-worst record in the NBA. As it would happen, the Kings owe [...]

The Denver Nuggets are adding to the NBA’s waiver wire just in time to help asset-strapped playoff teams bulk up ahead of the postseason. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Nuggets plan on buying out the contracts of J.J. Hickson and Steve Novak, the latter of whom they acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder, along [...]

The Denver Nuggets have a frontcourt logjam and they know it. Rookie Nikola Jokic’s breakout, along with Joffrey Lauvergne’s continued development and Danilo Gallinari’s need to see spot minutes at the 4, has put the team in a bit of a (pleasant) pickle. Throw in Jusuf Nurkic, Kenneth Faried and J.J. Hickson, and it becomes [...]

Here we come, NBA All-Star break. Which means here comes the NBA playoffs! More than half of the Association’s 2015-16 season is in the books, and save for a cluster of steady teams at the top of our power rankings, the league’s hierarchy knows no order. For every certainty like the Warriors, Spurs, Cavaliers and [...]

Meet those who will revive the NBA dunk contest. Or something. Sources gave Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes a preview of next Saturday’s dunk-contest lineup, and he was kind enough to share his intel: The field for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest scheduled for Feb. 13 in Toronto is set, according to league sources. The defending champion [...]

What time is it? NBA power rankings time. A lot has happened since we last met. All-Star rosters were finalized. The Warriors refused to lose. The Suns refused to let Jeff Hornacek keep his job. The Cavaliers found their mojo. The Bulls forgot how to score. The Spurs unleashed Kyle Anderson. The Knicks proved they’re [...]