Hoops Rumors

Nuggets forward/center Vlatko Cancar, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in the fall, was cleared to return earlier this week and was technically active in Denver’s games on Wednesday and Friday, though he didn’t play at all. According to Bennett Durando of The Denver Post, after Cancar injured his knee in November, he spent two weeks seeking out medical … [Read more...] about Nuggets’ Cancar Cleared To Return, Discusses Knee Surgery

Opposing defenses have shown an increasing willingness to load up against Nikola Jokic, writes Bennett Durando of The Denver Post, as they look to get the ball out of the MVP’s hands and force a Nuggets team that ranks dead-last in the NBA in three-point attempts (31.6 per game) to beat them from the outside. It worked for the Celtics in Boston on Sunday, as Russell Westbrook … [Read more...] about Nuggets Notes: Jokic, Westbrook, Braun, KCP, Nnaji

Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic concluded Friday’s overtime game against the Suns with the league’s first-ever 30/20/20 game, having totaled 31 points, 21 rebounds and 22 assists. In some ways, the three-time MVP’s history-making stat line is almost unsurprising. Jokic continues to be on the forefront of award discussions while putting up video-game level stat lines every … [Read more...] about Poll: Who Is The NBA’s 2024/25 MVP?

The Clippers had lost six of their last seven games and had fallen to ninth in the Western Conference standings entering Wednesday’s game vs. Detroit. They were also missing top scorer Norman Powell. So James Harden‘s 50-point outburst, which helped the team snap a three-game losing streak, was a welcome sight. As Law Murray of The Athletic writes, it was Harden’s first … [Read more...] about Western Notes: Harden, Kuminga, Hawkins, Nuggets

The Nuggets have ruled out a key reserve for the rest of March, announcing today (via Twitter) that second-year wing Julian Strawther has been diagnosed with a left knee sprain and will be reevaluated in four weeks. The injury occurred in the third quarter of Sunday’s game in Boston. Strawther caught a pass from Christian Braun at the top of the three-point arc and drove toward … [Read more...] about Nuggets’ Strawther Out At Least Four Weeks With Sprained Knee