http://www.nuggetsnews.com Denver Nuggets NBA Blog with Nuggets news, commentary and general opinion on the Denver Nuggets Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:39:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last game: Jan 21, Denver Nuggets 105 - Los Angeles Clippers 85 Next game: vs. New Orleans Hornets, Jan 23 9:00pm ET http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/quick-look/ The Nuggets seemed to have picked up where they left off last season, all the hard work Carmelo put in this summer is really paying off. Ive always thought he was one of the best offensive players in the game, he has never had to work as hard as Kobe, ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/lawson-a-steal-and-j-r-playing-defense/ Everything went right for the Nuggets last season, can it repeat this season? The Nuggets made a few minor moves this offseason, while the other top teams made major shakeups. Arron Afflalo and Joey Graham should replace Jones’s production and trading for Ty Lawson will prove to really help long ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/nuggets-season-preview/ After a two-year ban/suspension from the NBA for violating the league's substance abuse policy it was unknown of Andersen would even make it back into the league, let alone be thrown a five year contract worth $26 Million. It's not as if he didn't earn it this season. He was ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/nuggets-give-andersen-a-lucrative-contract/ Everyone knows who Carmelo Anthony is, there is no question about that. However, he hasn't seem to have gotten his just-due. Maybe it's because before hooking up with Chauncey Billups, Anthony failed to even win multiple games in a playoff series, meanwhile James and Wade have both been to the ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/carmelo-anthony/ Chris Dempsey of the Denver Post reports that guard Ty Lawson was a no-show for his workout with the Denver Nuggets, who reportedly had expressed the most interest in him up to this point. Lawson was a no-show at the Nuggets' college player workouts Sunday, two days after he was arrested ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/lawson-no-shows-chalmers-opens-eyes/ Jonathan Givoney of DraftExpress.com reports that with the 20th overall pick in this month's NBA draft, the Denver Nuggets may have made a promise to North Carolina guard Ty Lawson. Talk continues to circulate that the Denver Nuggets have promised to select Ty Lawson with the 20th pick later this month. ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/rumor-nuggets-promise-lawson-at-20/ Benjamin Hochman of The Denver Post reports: Don't look for Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony to be traded. Calvin Andrews, Anthony's agent, told The Denver Post that the Nuggets "informed me that they're not shopping Melo." Anthony has been a target for criticism after the Nuggets flamed out in the first round of ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/agent-melo-staying-put/   HE's BACK   Denverites are used to it by now.  Rockies who?  Regarding the past few seasons for the Denver Nuggets, much is misperception.   Casual analysis of this squad leads to conclusions that Denver is destined for yet another early exit.   Sure, even a hard-core Nugget fan will admit much about the current core is an enigma.  You can make a sound argument ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/soaring-under-the-radar/ In each of the last three pre-seasons the Denver Nuggets have been the popular, rather oxymoronic darkhorse pick in the Western conference by most major publications.   In each of those campaigns however, the team suffered a season ending injury to a starter in the first week of the season.  That has ... http://www.nuggetsnews.com/Denver-Nuggets/nuggets-cursed/