big honey and the nuggets

Nuggets injury report ahead of tonight’s game against Chicago:

Aaron Gordon is probable with the right heel strain

Jamal Murray is questionable with bilateral ankle sprains

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) December 12, 2023

bilateral ankle sprains

if that happened to iverson backina backina you’d say season-ending

i mean thats what he gave

got home late tonight and saw jokic had only played 16 minutes by the end of the third quarter despite only having one foul and my heart stopped for a minute before I figured out he got ejected

on serbian heritage night btw, refs are cowards

its anti slavic discrimination

According to @presidual's NBA schedule website, the Denver Nuggets have the easiest remaining strength of schedule (by far) and fewest remaining back-to-backs. pic.twitter.com/iYg5XrQbTL

— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) December 14, 2023

these are three big dudes out here styling like this

The spin, the pass, and the dunk. 10/10 play. pic.twitter.com/YOXU9Pejn4

— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) December 15, 2023

Nikola Jokić and Peyton Watson for @hotelsdotcom 😂 pic.twitter.com/og30pZCApr

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) December 19, 2023

jokic. man.

first half against the raps tonight is “the vision” of this team

New Jokić arm scratches just dropped pic.twitter.com/yNlc8NQNV1

— Resting Cliff Booth Face 🇺🇸 (@drnugget) December 23, 2023

lol during the game i googled why his arms get so scratched, this quote came up a couple times

"I lead the league in scratches. I'm always bleeding -- I'm used to it. I am going to wear sleeves next year -- 100 percent," Jokic told ESPN reporter Ohm Youngmisuk back in 2019.

he needs to get those sleeves!

in conclusion:

"I mean, to be honest, I'm wrestling with my brothers since I'm 4. So I can wrestle a long time, a long time."

is the joker on blood thinners

i think his skin is just very soft

Bam Adebayo says Nikola Jokic is the hardest player to defend in the NBA

“The thing that I most like about him is like he don’t flop…he not tryna get 16-17 free throws”

(🎥 @theOGsShow / https://t.co/J0RgDtrj2E) pic.twitter.com/iSA4gUjCxc

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) December 27, 2023

bam knows ball

interesting timing on this one lol

lol

Hes not a chronic flopper but yesterday was ugly

even considering he’s missed 14 games, I think jamal has played himself into the all star game at this point. dude’s in the zone

I’m crying bro was drunkenly wrestling with his doggo 😭 https://t.co/oEsxB42Np4 pic.twitter.com/7SD7B0Gn9j

— Ethical Hoops🏆 (only takes Ws) (@EthicalHoopz) December 31, 2023

he’s just like me

mmm hmmm

21 stitches? wtf kind of dog is this

super stoked gordon is back tonight. the reports made it kind of sound like a 2-3 week thing

he missed one game and isnt even disfigured, bunch of hype

rotty i read

Two casual Nikola Jokic passes from last night. pic.twitter.com/njV1ahCGCp

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) January 2, 2024

Tonight, Denver finishes their 9th back-to-back of the season. It is only game 37.

48.6% of Denver’s games this year have been part of a back-to-back. pic.twitter.com/HkgbQU39yX

— Nuggets Lead (@NuggetsLead) January 5, 2024

thats ridiculous

pic.twitter.com/p7AccamJJB

— Steven Reinert (@StevenReinert2) January 5, 2024

https://x.com/sa_da_tay_/status/1743154169605959735?s=20

I wish I could have stayed up to watch it.

WTF with that pass, KCP?

It just keeps going. Jokic has literally done nothing and yet continues to distance himself as the mvp favorite 😭 pic.twitter.com/bJtjkTX0E1

— Jack 🏹📋 (@murray_center27) January 10, 2024

that’s our big honey baby

hope he gets his 3rd

embiid will be gunning for it tho so jokic might have to try and care about it even just a little to pry it away later int he season

embiid probably won’t qualify tbh. jokic might be MVP-tanking early this year tho

maybe, but i could see him (joel) juicing up to get it. its his championship, after all

its probably more likely that shai gets up than embiid. embiid is just so tiresome and his team is not great

yeah id put money on shai at this point. new guy syndrome

derrick rose mvp year redux

no one really stepping up this year, embiid i guess if he meets the threshold

“Y’all put Jokic in the middle of that”

Melo opens up on jersey #15 in Denver on a new episode, out now. Tap in.@carmeloanthony x @THEKIDMERO

📺: https://t.co/JhHT8uX4QG pic.twitter.com/iHtZPb3PO1

— 7PM in Brooklyn (@7PMinBrooklyn) January 11, 2024

mixed feelings about this stuff, man. I wish the two sides would mend fences — melo is the reason I became a nuggets fan and he really did turn the franchise around, not only by reaching the conference finals but also by being turned into the building blocks of the current core. he’s the bridge between eras of this team. but at the end of the day I truly don’t know whom the pettier party is

I wish the two sides would mend fences

i also wish desus and mero would get back together

Instead of retiring his #15 jersey, the Denver Nuggets are actually going to raise these to the rafters to honour Melo’s time there. pic.twitter.com/ReEc6J4fRl

— Mo Mooncey (@TheHoopGenius) January 12, 2024

lol

for those who don’t know the background lol

MY SON GOT THE DENVER NUGGETS JEANS! pic.twitter.com/DSWWPJp4C9 https://t.co/G4vh65ORUA

— 💤 (@incrieyable) October 7, 2021

Lost the game but picked the right bar. Win or lose they all hang out @McGillins.

L-R: Val, Rene, Nikola Jokic, Jake, Griffin

"The Joker" is considered one of the greatest players and centers of all time and we were delighted to host him at Philly's oldest bar. pic.twitter.com/CFhXmTb0d8

— McGillin's (@McGillins) January 17, 2024

I feel like I could land jokic as a bar buddy if given the chance

still buzzing about the game last night. I’ve been ridiculously lucky to see this game and opening night in person this year, both of which were big statement wins over good teams (or in the case of the lakers, a team with high expectations)

the nuggets are in the middle of a tough stretch of games that they’ve mostly played well in, but what really impressed me is how much they really wanted this one after dropping that game in philly: they wanted a test, so they put out their playoff rotation and all the things that took them to the finals last year —murray/jokic 2-man game dominance, gordon at backup 5, and just putting the absolute clamps down defensively in crunch time. (credit to my gf btw who noticed “is that gordon playing center?” before me, she’s a keeper.) the defense is something that has always been there with this core 5 and gets lost in the national narrative at times because malone will play a lot of bench-heavy lineups that weigh down their rating, but the starters/finishers have always put down the clamps. to see it on the road against the best team in the league was incredible.

will be interesting to see how the rest of the regular season shakes out but it already seems like the playoff rotation is pretty set — jokic/jamal/KCP/AG/MPJ, with peyton, reggie and christian getting 10-20 mins apiece. we got there early for warmups yesterday and I saw vlatko cancar out shooting and it reminded me how much we miss him this year. I doubt the nuggets will make a MAJOR splash at the deadline but they really could use a big to play 6-12 minutes in big games to ease the pressure off jokic and gordon. andre drummond’s name has been floated which I think makes a ton of sense as a guy who obviously has his limitations but can rebound and protect the rim a bit. seems like the ship might have sailed on zeke nnaji unfortunately

what really impressed me is how much they really wanted this one after dropping that game in philly -

almost like they only expect one of those teams to come out of the east