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The Nuggets announced Monday that they would not be trading the face of the franchise—the one and only Carmelo Anthony. A high-ranking Denver official said Monday, “There is no way we are trading Carmelo Anthony. We’re 100 percent certain of that.” For any Nuggets fan, whether it be a Denver diehard, or a Melo-era baby blue backer—this is settling news after the rumors that started to swirl that Anthony would be traded ...
We’re three games into the NBA Finals, but that hasn’t been the overriding story so far. Without a doubt, this is the Summer of LeBron, and additionally the Summer of Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson and all the amazing talent that’s up for grabs. The NBA will be drastically different when the first basketballs are tipped in October, but one superstar will stay with his Denver Nuggets at least ...

2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey: NFL, Give Denver, Broncos a Bowl

Posted: 7th June 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NFL
The Super Bowl, America’s unofficial holiday, is annually the most substantial sporting event. The game has been played since 1967 when the NFL Commissioner was extremely intelligent, an innovator and a forward thinker. His name, Pete Rozelle. Rozelle brought the NFL and AFL together and created the Super Bowl as a title game that would crown the World Champion of football. And, while he was right in thinking it would benefit the world ...

Denver Broncos’ Tim Tebow Is Not Your Ordinary NFL Quarterback

Posted: 15th May 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NFL
Tim Tebow is just an ordinary American. He is a devout Christian that actually reads his bible and takes many of its passages to heart. This quote he said about teammates at Florida includes the Golden Rule: “You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.” Tebow loves sports, namely football, but baseball too. In an article ...

The Denver Nuggets’ House of Cards Is Coming Crashing Down

Posted: 28th April 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NBA
Fight. Heart. Desire. These are simply three words. But they are also three concepts that define a champion. Unfortunately for Denver fans, these are foreign ideas to the Nuggets. Denver, fresh off their third straight loss to Utah in the first round of the playoffs, is feeling the elephant-sized weight of a championship crumple their already weakened house of cards that is supporting it. A few cards short of a full deck? The Nuggets aren’t ...

2010 NBA Playoffs: The 5 Biggest Questions from the First Round

Posted: 28th April 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NBA
Just over a week into the playoffs and the gargantuans have given us gems of games. The Trail Blazers upset the Suns on the road. The Celtics and Heat got into a heated brawl. And the Spurs could actually take Round One from the Mavericks—the mainstream’s pick for second-best in the West. Through all the confounding contests some questions have been answered—and many more have sprung up. Are the Spurs actually for ...

2010 NBA Playoffs: Five Things We Learned Over Opening Weekend

Posted: 20th April 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NBA
The Playoffs are a magical time of year where every play can be a game-changer. This opening weekend was one to remember, with many great storylines emerging from the highly competitive basketball action. From elbows and suspensions to playoff career-high scoring and a major upset—this weekend of extremely aggressive NBA contests had everything a fan could want. The following is a list of the five biggest things we learned this opening playoff ...
Throughout the 2009-2010 season the Denver Nuggets have been magical and miserable, consistently inconsistent, and both a contender and a pretender at times. Denver has enjoyed winning streaks of six (twice) and eight games this year, but also three-game losing streaks (twice) and has only gone 11-8 since Adrian Dantley took over for cancer-stricken George Karl. There is no doubt that the Nuggets need both Karl, along with the ailing (left knee) ...

2010 NBA Playoffs: Power Ranking the Postseason Teams

Posted: 16th April 2010 by Rich Kurtzman in NBA
This is it NBA fans. The time of year that everyone has been waiting for since the opening tip in late October. At long last, the NBA Playoffs are upon us. Everything that players and teams have done for the last six months has led up to this—the time of year where every game, every play can make the difference between failure and success. Down the stretch run of the ...
As the NBA enters its final week of regular season play, “A whole new level of competition” is around the corner—the playoffs. While the Eastern Conference has a sub-.500 team (Chicago) in the playoffs at 21 and a half games back of first, the West is separated by a miniscule seven games overall. The West is by far the best, through and through. Not only has the depth of the West ...