List of All Articles with Tag 'denver nuggets'

Make no mistake about it, the Miami Heat have been THE story of the 2023 NBA Playoffs. Rising from the play-in ladder to the Finals, they may look like a team of destiny, but Nikola Jokic and his Denver Nuggets will simply be too much for them to handle.First things first, I respect the heck out...

There’s just one more series to go in the 2022-23 NBA season, so you know that I have to get as many player prop picks off as possible.The Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat face off in Game 1 on Thursday, and there are a boatload of props to bet on the board. I’ve narrowed it down to my ...

Is Nikola Jokic the Nuggets best player? He refuses to say.

The Lakers ended this season by getting swept in the Western Conference Finals. What can they do to improve for next season?The Lakers had a really weird season. By midseason, they were the No. 13 seed in the Western Conference. They then traded Russell Westbrook and started to improve. LeBron J...

Sydney Sweeney is garnering rave reviews for "Reality", Caleb Love transfers to Arizona, Colorado is in talks with the Big 12 and more in the Roundup.

After a grueling series that goes the distance of seven games, can teams keep up its high level of play and succeed?History doesn't look favorably on teams that play seven games the series prior, like the Miami Heat did in the Eastern Conference Finals. Based on recent history, the Heat are...

For just the second time in NBA history, a No. 8 seed is in the NBA Finals, and that’s caused the exact outcomes or correct score odds for the series to look extremely lopsided.The No. 1-seeded Denver Nuggets have better odds to win the series in five, six, seven or four games than the Mia...

The era of sports analytics is well underway. The analysts have the Nuggets winning the championship — and rightly so.Basketball is one of the least-variant and most accurately projected professional sports. While basketball analytics provide digestible ways to understand how the game is p...

Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson on Denver fans and Mike Malone's narratives.

With the NBA Finals matchup set, we're diving into (and answering) the biggest questions looming over this matchup between the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets.The Miami Heat nearly teetered into making the wrong kind of history but, instead, they beat the Boston Celtics in Game 7 to complete ...

The NBA Finals matchup is set!The No. 1-seeded Denver Nuggets have home-court advantage against the No. 8-seeded Miami Heat, who are looking to become the first No. 8 seed to ever win an NBA Finals.Miami isn’t a typical No. 8 seed, as the team was the top seed in the East last season b...

The 2023 NBA Finals are set with the No. 8 seed from the Eastern Conference Miami Heat shocking the basketball world by making its second finals appearance in four years, this time facing the Western Conference No. 1 seed Denver Nuggets.While the Heat have stolen headlines with upsets galore, th...