big honey and the nuggets

I've seen a lot of talk from other fan bases about why the Nuggets play Jokic with the starters so many minutes to juice his plus-minus.

It's not to juice his plus-minus.

It's to quite literally keep the Nuggets from bleeding out. pic.twitter.com/1nI0NQ8qVK

— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) March 29, 2024

this is legitimately obscene

Jamal Murray will not play tonight for Denver.

Malone says he’s getting better but Murray isn’t ready to go out and compete at the level the Nuggets need him to quite yet.

It’s a combination of ankle, shins, and knee bothering him.

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) March 29, 2024

if malone starts reggie I’m calling the police

lmao brunson/hart arguing about the location of the lower defensive box

wonder if thibs listens to the pod

he should have just called in, probably could have cleared things up

that would be a good bit

Jesus, they looked bad last night.

yeah they’re tired and disengaged. jokic is banged up and the only other guy in the rotation who can plausibly create off the dribble is reggie. time to just pull the plug on the season and focus on health

I mean, there is Braun, too, but the whole team just looked exhausted and out of sync last night. They had, what, a dozen turnovers? I guess if there is an upside it's that the remaining games of the season are relatively easy.

braun has no meaningful off the dribble creation skills. he will make a play here and there but he’s not someone you can have fill in as a creator. to his credit he’s a very smart player who knows his skill set and wojt try to color outside the lines much. he’s a very good defender of course

I was really hoping we’d see strawther get some meaningful minutes just to see what he could give us but it’s probably too late to even try now

One of the reasons we've seen Nikola Jokic's shooting efficiency drop is because of WHEN in the shot clock he attempts a shot.

Jokic has attempted 165 shots with under 4 seconds on the shot clock this year, which is 27 more than anyone else.

Jokic has attempted 204 shots with… pic.twitter.com/JLnMSwUGwz

— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) April 2, 2024

kind of wild he’s got such a lead in both time chunks

maybe he should shoot more earlier in the clock

Best Passer in the Association pic.twitter.com/Vn4ZCjP3bj

— Swipa (@SwipaCam) April 3, 2024

!!

Huge progress in Nikola Jokic's quest to get a 3-shot foul called: NBA's L2M Report says this was an "incorrect call" should have been ruled a shooting foul.

"The illegal contact occurs during Jokic's shooting motion and should have been assessed as a shooting foul." pic.twitter.com/3GjYehtJcy

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) April 3, 2024

justice!

I noticed Coach Malone and Peyton Watson hugging at the end of the Nuggets game last night. PWat explained and I loved this answer:

“He’s had so much patience with me and he’s put a lot of confidence in me so I just wanted to share a moment with him to let him know I’m ready.” pic.twitter.com/Iq8c2628x2

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) April 11, 2024

watson is a ++++ makeup guy

Fits are laid out for Round One.

🎟 https://t.co/DQveMx4S74 pic.twitter.com/L7K5PX18SV

— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) April 18, 2024

the 5280 jerseys in a potential game 7 ;_;

embarrassing

jersey schedule

I’m fucking weeping laughing, he’s cooler than everyone else in the league and he’s a gigantic Serbian shaped like a Nintendo Switch https://t.co/xpKeNpXZHm

— AK Lingus (@aklingus) February 28, 2024

Its beautiful pic.twitter.com/HjOjbaDsbm

— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) April 23, 2024

this play will go down in nuggets lore: extremely i’ll-advised 3pt foul grifting attempt from jokic -> once in a lifetime save from AG into a perfect pass to MPJ -> game tying 3 with 2 defenders collapsing on him at the same time

Luck is a skill

NEW Brother of Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr, Jevon Porter, arrested for DWI

Comes weeks after other brother Coban was sentenced to prison for killing a woman while driving drunk

His other brother Jontay was just banned from NBA for life for gamblinghttps://t.co/G0klgnBfAh

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) May 1, 2024

what the HELL man?

what is going on with this fam

Religion

The Denver Nuggets pic.twitter.com/wMDJy5o1hp

— RK (@RyanKoenigsberg) May 11, 2024

probably my fav and most memorable jokic move/shot

"He's the one." Hakeem Olajuwon pic.twitter.com/yLVDmHzbxI

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) May 15, 2024

that was insane the one where he drove baseline and hit a i guess reverse hook shot was good too

This is hilarious😭 pic.twitter.com/MKU0QzGZHp

— Hoops (@HoopMixOnly) May 15, 2024

this is so good

heard lebron was incorporating shirtless karaoke into his offseason routine

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5495107/2024/05/15/nuggets-team-dinner-aaron-gordon/

So, what did Gordon do to deserve an exile from off-nights of camaraderie and fine dining with his basketball brothers? He was the only player who didn’t make it to the dinner in Minneapolis on Thursday night when the Nuggets’ title defense was on the brink after those disastrous first two games against Minnesota. The gathering was just what they all needed to brighten the darkest of moods.

You know what happened next. The Nuggets started playing like the Nuggets again — chief among them (now) three-time MVP Nikola Jokić — and took Game 3 in dominant fashion. As such, with the basketball gods having deemed this dinner the secret to all that ailed them, the decision was made that Gordon would not be allowed to attend until their good fortunes came to an end.

So they wined and dined without him at the same restaurant again on Saturday night, then tied the series 2-2 the following evening at Target Center. Gordon, in turn, will now find himself flying solo in Minneapolis yet again. And truth be told, he couldn’t be happier about it.

I'm not mad... in fact I'm laughing about it

its a cold world

he needs to be better

in sportsblab radio a local 50 y/o, reasonably dignified host told of riding an elevator in a jokic singlet when— on strolled joker.

host described wanting to die, but bravely making the smallest of smalltalk. as they partied ways, jokic said matter-of-factly, and way off topic, “it’s too small” and strode away.

re: a post I made after the nuggets fell behind 0-2:

3) this is something that merits a longer and more careful excavation, but malone and calvin booth don’t seem to have the same vision for this team. the nuggets drafted three guys this offseason, only one of whom (strawther) probably had any chance of getting real playoff minutes, but for some reason signed all three to full deals rather than two-ways. despite that, malone never really seriously gave strawther a chance to crack the rotation at the end of the season, so we’re stuck with reggie playing important minutes when it could not be more clear that a) he’s not good enough and b) he does not fit their system. and signing the other guys to full deals instead of two-ways when they weren’t going to be playoff rotation players seems to have been a big mistake when the team obviously needed to shore up their bench somehow

KOC takes a similar angle:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2024/5/21/24161611/denver-nuggets-offseason-2024-calvin-booth-michael-malone