In the Nuggets’ clobbering of the Lakers last night, JaVale McGee scored just two points after notching 21 in the previous victory. Such is the enigma of McGee, who’s got great physical skills but is widely regarded to be a moron — the star of his own Deadspin feature who…
Arguably the most memorable moment of last night’s Nuggets-Lakers playoffs game saw ailing superstar Kobe Bryant fell rising rookie Kenneth Faried with a flagrant foul; see it and plenty of other video below. But this play was hardly symbolic of the contest as a whole. The Nugs, who once looked…
Maybe JaVale McGee had a bad experience with a game ball he received previously. Maybe the Nuggets’s big man saw a heckler in the stands he was trying to hit. Or more likely, there was something entirely different going on in the, uh, unique mind of McGee. Whatever the reason,…
No denying it: After the Nuggets lost game four of their playoffs series against the Lakers at home on Sunday night, I thought they were doomed to another 4-1 first-round exit — and I wasn’t the only one. But stunningly, Denver managed to beat L.A. 102-99 in what was expected…
Update: Savannah McMillan-Christmas, the woman who walked onto the court during Sunday’s Denver-L.A. playoff game, was originally reported to be a known stalker of Nuggets players. But as we wrote in an update on view below, this account has now been discredited — and Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson expresses…
Brian Xanders’ ouster as the Broncos’ general manager isn’t exactly a shock. After all, his association with the discredited Josh McDaniels regime made it surprising that he was able to hang on for as long as he did. Why did his luck finally run out?…
After the Lakers beat the Nuggets last night, much of the social media chatter focused on Savannah McMillan-Christmas, who wandered onto the court in the middle of the game. But there was also a Twitter eruption from Lakers fans celebrating the win in predictably irritating ways — like referring to…
Where there’s life, there’s hope — but the Denver Nuggets don’t have much of either right now. After making an energetic stand on Friday night to notch a 99-84 victory over the heavily favored L.A. Lakers at the Pepsi Center, the Nugs failed to build on this success, falling to…
Westword feature subject Jamie Moyer is baseball’s unlikeliest story. At 49, and coming off of major elbow surgery, he’s not only become the oldest player ever to win a game, he’s also managed to pitch well enough to be considered the Rockies’s ace, though that may say just as much…
Just as the Denver Nuggets are underdogs to the L.A. Lakers in their playoffs series, so, too, do the superstar Laker Girls seem to have the advantage over the hometown Nuggets Dancers. But how do these rival squads really match up? We’ve assembled the starting lineups (as well as the…
Every story about Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer, including our cover story this week by Caleb Hannan, prominently features the word “old.” But because, rightly or wrongly, that word can have a negative connotation in our society, we decided to focus for once on something young in relation to the 49-year-old…
The best reason to have Jamie Moyer in the Colorado Rockies clubhouse is that he’s a good pitcher with the team’s best earned-run average. The second best reason is that it means the Rockies hitters don’t have to face him. The subject of this week’s cover story, “For 49-year-old pitcher…
After the Nuggets’ desultory game one loss to the Lakers in their first-round playoffs matchup, there were legitimate questions about whether Denver even belonged in the same arena as Kobe Bryant and his L.A. crew. Game two was considerably less humiliating, with the Nugs making the Angelenos work a little…
After Peyton Manning signed with the Broncos, he posed with a jersey at his introductory press conference. But now, we’re finally getting a chance to see him wearing the orange, thanks to DirecTV images from an ad also featuring Deion Sanders and Peyton’s little bro, Eli — and most fans…
OMG, did you hear that ESPN’s NFL Draft gasbag Mel Kiper gave the Broncos draft class a C+? What will the organization do after receiving such a mediocre evaluation? Maybe John Elway and other executives will assess the players in training camp, attempt to improve their weaknesses and put them…
Last week, our Kyle Garratt assembled a list of five reasons why the Nuggets might upset the Lakers — but during Sunday’s humiliating 103-88 defeat in L.A., there appeared to be none. The Nugs’ desultory performance was epitomized by Ty Lawson’s awful game, but he was hardly the sole Denverite…
Kobe Bryant has three more championships by himself than the entire Nuggets roster. The Los Angeles Lakers have three of the best twenty players in basketball. The Lakers are 26-7 at home this year, second best in the league. Given that, will the Nuggets beat the Lakers in the first…
The Broncos spent the first night of the NFL draft picking absolutely no one after trading down twice. But another Denver team is ready for the season. This past weekend, the 2012 Broncos cheerleaders squad was announced, and while all-man Sacha Heppell didn’t make the final cut, the women who…
How much respect are the Nuggets getting going into the playoffs? Well, the NBA.com video recap of last night’s key victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder (it’s on view below) is dominated by great OKC plays, including Kevin Durant’s epic posterizing of JaVale McGee. But if the Nugs can take…
In all of the hoopla surrounding President Barack Obama’s speech at CU-Boulder last night, as well as his crowd-pleasing, yogurt-spilling stop at The Sink, a favorite Boulder restaurant and student hangout, the media has thus far missed a side note involving hoops. To wit: Spencer Dinwiddie, one of the most…
Remember Chris “Birdman” Andersen? He was arguably the most popular member of the Denver Nuggets — a bigger fave among lotsa fans than even Carmelo Anthony — during many of the squad’s best recent seasons due in part to his larger-than-life personality, celebrated in a photo gallery below. But as…
Your Denver Nuggets are officially a playoff team. But they’ll likely be out of the postseason mighty fast unless they manage to use the NBA circle of life to prevent the death of their 2012 season. To whit: If they don’t up-end the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road Wednesday,…
