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1 day ago | milehighsports.com | Mark Knudson

Strike 2: You can make a solid argument that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is this season’s NBA’s “Player of the Year.”You cannot make the argument that he is the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. There’s a distinct difference between the two terms. There has not and maybe never will be a player who is more valuable to a good team than Nikola Jokic. The Denver Nuggets superstar is very unlikely to receive his fourth NBA MVP Award when the winner is announced during this postseason.

2 days ago | milehighsports.com | Mark Knudson

Strike 1: Deion Sanders is 100% correct about one thing. “If his last name wasn’t Sanders, we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” the Colorado Buffaloes head football coach said. He was referring to the controversial decision to retire the No. 2 of his son/quarterback Shedeur, a move that was greeted with a mixture of befuddlement and outrage by the CU fan base and loyal alumni.

1 week ago | milehighsports.com | Mark Knudson

Strike 3: The flood of misinformation that all human beings are all forced to deal with these days – courtesy of social media and the internet – is staggering. What used to be easily checked out and dismissed as a falsehood or even a downright lie is now oftentimes accepted as an “alternative fact” just because someone decides they like the source. These days, if you tell a lie over and over again, pretty soon people start to believe the lie is true. Major League Baseball players are not immune.

1 week ago | milehighsports.com | Ryan Blackburn

As the Denver Nuggets prepare for the first round of the playoffs, it’s important to figure out just how far they’re capable of progressing. The Los Angeles Clippers might be the perfect opportunity for Denver to test themselves. The general public sees this as a very close series, one that the Clippers perhaps should be favored in. Denver has to be pretty serious in order to take take Los Angeles, and for a team that just fired their head coach and general manager, that appears doubly so.

1 week ago | milehighsports.com | Ryan Blackburn

There are several ways the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers first round playoff series is expected to be one of the best in the NBA this year. First is the star power. You have Nikola Jokic three-time MVP on one team, along with the primary core of a championship team from 2023. On the other team? Playoff performer but often injured Kawhi Leonard plus often healthy but playoff dropper James Harden.