big honey and the nuggets

the nuggets of denver are 15-2 since the all star break

(which is good)

Has anyone tried Jokic since? pic.twitter.com/fLYtK2vhl3

— NBAinthezone™️ (@NBAinthezone) March 26, 2024

while I don’t condone violence…this is for sure an interesting inflection point

jokic's game is all finesse and his personality is pretty easygoing, but soft he is not

I LIVE for these conversation about Nikola Jokić pic.twitter.com/9onlgybDFB

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) March 28, 2024

is this the only good player pod?

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

Nikola Jokic update pic.twitter.com/WXMQj47c1s

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) June 13, 2024

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Nuggets

Caldwell-Pope has a player option for $15.4 million that he’d be likely to decline because he can make in the $20 million to $25 million range annually on a new deal. However, the Nuggets might prefer to keep him locked in on that salary for one more year — which would help with the luxury tax and possibly let them skirt the second apron — and instead sign an extension off that number, even if it overpays him in the out years.

For instance, a four-year, $97 million extension — the maximum he’s eligible to receive — would essentially equal five years and $112 million in free agency for Caldwell-Pope or about $22.4 million a year. That would pay him until age 36 — wild stuff for a fifth option who averaged 10 points a game.

Of course, the Nuggets could just agree to a standard new deal with Caldwell-Pope, but it would seem that for virtually any dollar amount in an agreement, Denver should spread that money further into the future and keep that $15.4 million cap hit in 2024-25. As a result, don’t be shocked to see him opt in to the deal in late June with an extension agreed to and then sign the extension when he becomes eligible on July 16. If he opts out at the end of this month, take it as a sign that he’s probably gone.

NBA Champion Deandre Jordan on getting to know Nikola Jokic.

"I can't fuck it up, because if not, he's gonna be like - you're not black serbian." pic.twitter.com/Lwqfqw55h0

— n i k o l a e s t h e t i c (@nikolaesthetic) June 24, 2024

thing I love about this team is the sheer number of normal good dudes on the roster — DJ, jokic, and AG have to all be on the top 20 chill supportive teammates all star team

someone gotta offset that MPJ weirdo energy

jamal’s a bit of a weirdo too — his psycho kobe energy is needed on the court and maybe the locker room but in terms of guys you’d want to chill with he’d prob be last lol

jordanovic

are the nugs gonna let kcp go due to apron considerations, are they going to do something else

I’m waiting pretty eagerly to see how it plays out, and I’ve seen such conflicting reporting that I feel like I have no idea what’s going to happen. it seems clear he’ll decline the player option, but whether that’s to extend or to test the market is hard to say. they have his bird rights so as long as they’re willing to go into the second apron (for him, and for jamal and AG), the core could stay together through the end of jokic’s prime. which at the end of the day is imo the most important thing — the opportunity costs the second apron imposes are worth considering tho

hope they dont have to break the band up over some accounting bs

the country needs celtics nuggets.