The Nuggets’ 94-89 victory over the Miami Heat — sealing a 4-1 series win and the franchise’s first NBA championship — averaged 13.08 million viewers Monday night, a high for the series and slightly ahead of last year’s fifth game between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics . The five-game series averaged about 11.64 million viewers, […]
LOS ANGELES – The 2023 NBA finals was full of firsts. …Read the full story
For example, in the Milwaukee Bucks’ championship ring for the 2020/21 season, 400 diamonds were placed, 360 of which were on the top to represent the victories achieved since the team was purchased. …Read the full story
DENVER – A shooting in downtown Denver amid fans celebrating the Nuggets’ first NBA championship victory was likely sparked by a drug deal gone wrong, police said Tuesday. All of the injured are expected to survive, including five or six people that police believe were bystanders not involved in the drug deal, Chief Ron Thomas […]
The player with the most points and rebounds in championship-clinching Game 5, Nikola Jokic received the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award for his brilliant displays throughout the best-of-seven series between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat. “Since day one in San Diego, it was something different about this team. …Read the full […]
The shooting – which left three of the victims in critical condition – happened about a mile from Ball Arena, where the Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat on Monday night to claim their first NBA title. The shooting happened about 12.30am, Denver police said in a statement. Charles Robert Smith, 43, faces three counts […]
Police also “made contact” with occupants of a vehicle that was parked across the street and believed to be involved in the shooting, Clark said. …Read the full story
First and foremost, it’s a major win for Murray, who played at a superstar level in the postseason after missing the entirety of the 2021-22 campaign due to a torn ACL suffered in April 2021. As the number of Canadians in the NBA grows, so will the number of Canadians to win an NBA title. […]
It’s hard from a fan standpoint, an organizational standpoint, a reputation standpoint and of course, just hard coming up short for so many years. They convinced Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden to team up and have nothing to show for it, mainly because the one full year all three were together, injuries to […]
The Denver Nuggets are the 2022-23 NBA Champions and the rest of the NBA will now start focusing on 2023-24 season. Despite having the best regular season of his NBA career, he spent a good chunk of the postseason sidelined. In Milwaukee, he’d be a great third fiddle to Antetokounmpo and Middleton offensively, giving them […]
Some poured into the streets of LoDo from dozens of nearby crowded bars, some streamed into the city from surrounding highways, to join a street party of singing, dancing, and blaring car horns. The Lookout is a free, daily email newsletter with news and happenings from all over Colorado. They give brief insights into our […]
Jokic became the first player in history to lead the league in points in a single postseason. Unable to shake the tenacious Heat or their own closing-night jitters, the Nuggets missed 20 of their first 22 3-pointers. Trailing by three with 15 seconds left, Butler jacked up a 3, but missed it. “Those last three […]
In Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Braun finished 7-8 from the field for 15 points in 19 minutes of action as the Nuggets won 109-94 to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Braun played three seasons at Kansas from 2019-20 to 2021-22. In 2020, the Burlington, Kansas, native was named to the Big […]
DENVER — When it was over — when the Denver Nuggets had finally bested the Miami Heat, the doubters, and their own obvious nerves — Ball Arena erupted. They turned the ball over 15 times, including four to start the game itself, setting a tone of fear, worry and pressure. Yet somehow, throughout all of […]
