Denver Nuggets News

It's been a long time since Andre Miller led the Utah men's basketball team to the national championship game against Kentucky in 1998 and earned numerous All-America honors the next year as a senior.

Barnes will be 22 years old by the time next season starts, and he already has the physique of a stud player.

His extra shots with assistant coach Ed Pinckney concluded, Joakim Noah sat on the scorer's table after the Bulls' Friday morning shootaround at the United Center and smiled.

Since the return of Ty Lawson a couple of games ago, the Denver Nuggets have been playing at a much higher level than without their point guard, but do they have any playoff hope left? They beat the eighth-place Dallas Mavericks and are set to take on the miserable Lakers tonight.

Earlier today I looked at the news that broke that the New York Knicks reportedly talked to Phil Jackson about the head coaching position.

Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks aim for back-to- back wins for the first time in more than a month when they host the Utah Jazz Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

The Lakers suffered the most-lopsided loss in franchise history Thursday night when their co-tenants at Staples Center buried them 142-94 in front of a national television audience.

New York's J.R. Smith knocked the ball away from Kevin Martin during the Wolves' 118-106 loss on Wednesday night.

Mike Woodson called a flagrant tampering foul on the Bulls' Joakim Noah on Thursday amid reports that Chicago's center tried to actively recruit Carmelo Anthony at last month's All-Star weekend to sign with the Bulls this summer.

Cleveland Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, of Lithuania, heads to the bench while facing the Denver Nuggets in the fourth quarter of the Nuggets' 99-97 victory in an NBA basketball game in Denver on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010.

Denver Nuggets guard Nate Robinson has played on six different teams in his nine-year career, so it is no surprise that he wants to stick with a team.

Back when he was the starting power forward for a Cleveland Cavaliers team that advanced to the NBA Finals, Drew Gooden came up with a routine of flickering his fingers - or "making it rain" - after he made a string of jumpers.

Carlisle just hope the Mavs will play the next 20 "Super Bowls" much, much better than the one they played Wednesday night, because there was absolutely nothing super about the way the Mavs played against the lowly Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center.

The energetic Sanders who troubled the Denver Nuggets was the one Milwaukee Bucks fans were expecting this season.

Denver Nuggets small forward Quincy Miller blocks a shot by Dallas Mavericks point guard Devin Harris during the first quarter March 5, 2014 at Pepsi Center.

Trevor Ariza scored 26 points, Bradley Beal added 22, and the Washington Wizards took an early lead and never lost it Wednesday night, shooting 54 percent in a 104-91 win over the Utah Jazz.

After back to back losses to Denver in November, the Nuggets come to Texas for a prime time match-up.

The Washington Wizards snapped a six-game win streak Monday in a 110-104 loss to Mike Miller and the visiting Memphis Grizzlies .

The Timberwolves are 4 1/2 games off a playoff spot in the West with 23 games to play, while the Knicks sit 6 1/2 games out of a postseason berth and have 21 contests remaining on the slate.

Smith averaged 8.1 points and 3.3 rebounds on 35.4 percent shooting in 23 games with the J.R. Smith, was waived by the actual Knicks in December, presumably after New York decided it wasn't in the business of doing "Swish" any more favors.