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5 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
Bad shoulder and all, Michael Porter Jr. picked the perfect time to have the most impactful postseason performance of his career. After a poor showing in the first two games in Oklahoma City, Porter hit every shot the Nuggets needed to keep them in the first half of a pivotal Game 3 and hit another clutch shot in overtime to be the unsung hero in Denver’s 113-104 win to take a 2-1 lead over the Thunder at Ball Arena.
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5 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
Jamal Murray was the hero of Game 3 as Denver eked out an 113-104 win to take a 2-1 series lead in a second-round NBA playoffs series. Here are three takeaways from Game 3 at Ball Arena:In tight games, it’s often 3-point percentage that decides a game and the Nuggets used the good vibes of being back home to their advantage in terms of shots from beyond the arc.
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6 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
The Nuggets did it. They accomplished job No. 1 for any road team in a playoff series. It doesn’t matter Oklahoma City has outscored Denver by 41 points through two games; each team will enter Ball Arena for Game 3 on Friday with one win apiece. It’s now on David Adelman’s Nuggets to keep home-court advantage against a Thunder team that won 68 games in the regular season and had the best net rating in league history.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
The Thunder knocked out the Nuggets. The young but supremely talented Oklahoma City team responded with a 149-106 win at Paycom Center that tied the second-round series 1-1 heading back to Denver. Here are three takeaways from the Nuggets’ defeat:The Thunder were not going to let Nikola Jokic repeat his Game 1 masterpiece.
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1 week ago | 
gazette.com | Tyler King
The Thunder knocked out the Nuggets. The young but supremely talented Oklahoma City team responded with a 149-106 win at Paycom Center that tied the second-round series 1-1 heading back to Denver. Here are three takeaways from the Nuggets’ defeat:The Thunder were not going to let Nikola Jokic repeat his Game 1 masterpiece.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
In their first road Game 1 in over three years, the Nuggets weren’t fazed. Despite playing in a Game 7 against the Clippers 48 hours prior, Denver came into the house of the well-rested No. 1 seed Thunder and pulled out a miraculous 121-119 win thanks to Aaron Gordon’s game-winning 3-pointer. Here are three takeaways from the game:Despite a poor shooting night from the Nuggets, Gordon made the one that counted.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
The Denver Gazette sports staff picks the NBA playoffs series between the No. 4-seeded Nuggets and top-seed Oklahoma City Thunder:Paul Klee, sports editorSeries pick: Nuggets in 7As readers of this space have known for a long time, for as long as Nikola Jokic is engaged and able, I won’t pick against the best player I’ve ever seen. He’s so much better than everyone else the notion there’s an MVP race is laugh-out-loud silly.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
The last time the Nuggets had just one day off between playoff series, they were taking a bus from a Walt Disney World resort to the arena every day. This time, Denver’s reward for a hard-fought seven game series win on Saturday over the talented Los Angeles Clippers is a Sunday afternoon flight to Oklahoma City and an opening game against the No. 1 seed Thunder on Monday night. Just two years ago, Denver was the top seed in the Western Conference on the way to the franchise’s first NBA title.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
Nuggets vs. Thunder: the expected Western Conference Finals matchup that we never got last season. After both Denver and Oklahoma City endured disappointing second-round exits a year ago, they now meet in that same round and one of them will be one of the last four teams standing in the NBA this time around. Will it be the 2023 champions taking one step closer to reclaiming their trophy or will the upstart Thunder reach their first conference finals since the Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook era?
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Tyler King
Outside of Game 4, the Nuggets didn’t get MVP Nikola Jokic in the first round series against the Clippers. It didn’t matter. For the first time since his first ever playoff series against the Spurs in 2019, Jokic had multiple games with fewer than 20 points in a single series. He had 16 points on 6-for-14 shooting from the field to go with 10 rebounds and eight assists in Denver’s Game 7 win over Los Angeles. As he dealt with foul trouble and played just over 32 minutes, his teammates picked him up.
