Player Spotlight: Nikola Jokić The Nuggets big man had himself quite night. In Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, Jokić scored 34 points, grabbed 21 rebounds and dished out 14 assists in Denver’s 132-126 win over the Lakers. The triple-double was his sixth such performance of this playoff run. Who Got It Done Rk Player Tm Opp MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS +/- GmSc 1 Nikola Jokić DEN LAL W 42:26 12 17…
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Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals started off as a game that looked to be preparing to serve its spectators a healthy portion of garbage time , but it ended turning into a contest that had some tense moments but the Denver Nuggets managed to hang on to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 132-126 to take a 1-0 series lead. Falling behind as much as 21 , the Lakers spent most of the game playing uphill but to their credit, continued to fight and trimmed the lead to as…
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Player Spotlight- Tyrese Maxey The young guard scored 30 points, grabbed 7 rebounds and handed out 3 assists in Philadelphia’s 115-103 win over Boston in Game 5 to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Semifinal series. It was the second time this post season Maxey has scored 30 or more. Who Got It Done pt rb ast Nikola JokićDEN vs. PHO 29 13 12 Triple-double Jayson TatumBOS vs. PHI 36 10 5 11-13 ft Joel EmbiidPHI @ BOS 33 7 3 10-11 ft Tyrese MaxeyPHI @ BOS…
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Player Spotlight- James Harden James Harden bounced back from two subpar outings with 42 points, including the game-winning basket to help lift the Philadelphia 76ers to a series-trying 116-115 win over the Boston Celtics. Who Got It Done pt rb ast James HardenPHI vs. BOS 42 8 9 6-9 3-pt Nikola JokićDEN @ PHO 53 4 11 11-13 ft Devin BookerPHO vs. DEN 36 6 12 14-18 fg Kevin DurantPHO vs. DEN 36 11 6 12-13 ft Joel EmbiidPHI vs. BOS 34 13 4 12-15 ft Jayson TatumBOS @ PHI…
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Tuesday afternoon the NBA announced the league had fined DenverNuggets center DeMarcus Cousins. The Association relieved the veteran big man of $15,000 for kicking a towel into the stands; the incident occurred in Game 4 of their opening round playoff series against the Golden State. After heading to bench, an unhappy Boogie Morten Andersen’d towel into the stands. It wasn’t a total loss as the Nuggets did win the game 126-121.
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Wednesday the NBA announced a suspension for Nuggest guard Facubdo Campazzo and a fine for Lakers guard Wayne Ellington for a dustup and Ellington’s later comments on social media. Here is footage of the incident: This was the $20,000 tweet from Ellington after the game : The most confounding aspect of that dustup was that Ellington had nothing to with the play; it Mac McClung who contested the shot and there was not excessive contact, not anything dirty about McClung’s play, so it is not clear was caused Campazzo to…
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Monday afternoon the NBA announced their Players of the Week for games played March 28-April 3.Trae Young was named Eastern Conference Player f he Week and Nikola Jokic Western Conference Player of the Week. Western Conference POY, Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets It was another stellar week of play for Nuggets, leading his squad to an 3-1 week and averaged 34.8 points, a whopping 17.3 rebounds and an incredible 8.5 assists. With is play this season, Jokic has firmly entrenched himself in the MVP race, averaging 26.8 points, 13.7 rebounds and…
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Despite playing pretty well, starting 5 games and averaging 9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds in just 16.9 minutes per contests, Demarcus Cousins was waived by the Milwaukee Bucks right before the January 5 deadline that would have guaranteed his contract for the rest of the season Now the former All-Star has signed a 10-day contract with the Denver Nuggets, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. It has been a long and winding road for Cousins since suffering ACL and Achilles tendon tears back-to-back. Let’s hope that he gets the opportunity to…
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Check out this interesting read at EuroHoops.net about how a young Nikola Jokic was overlooked by a club in Belgrade for being fat and no one though the future NBA MVP had any game. From the Eurohoops.net team/ info@eurohoops.net Partizan Belgrade’s former legendary coach Dusko Vujosevic talked about how the club ignored Nikola Jokic back when the current NBA MVP was a youngster because he was considered “fat” and because no one believed in his potential at all. Not even Vujosevic, who has an eye for prospects, himself thought that Jokic…
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from nba.com: Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray is out indefinitely with a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced on Tuesday. Murray suffered the injury with 50 seconds remaining in Denver’s loss to Golden State on Monday. An MRI confirmed the diagnosis. Murray had missed the previous four games due to soreness in his other knee. The former seventh overall pick was enjoying a career year for the Nuggets, who had surged up the Western Conference standings since acquiring Aaron Gordon from Orlando at the trade deadline. A fifth-year guard,…
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