Nuggets coach George Karl has been diagnosed with cancer of the head and neck, and will leave the team periodically to undergo treatment. Assistant coach Adrian Dantley will fill in when Karl is unavailable. The condition is being decribed as “treatable” — but Karl knows nothing is guaranteed. As he told reporters at yesterday’s press [...]
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The Denver Nuggets tried an old high school hoops trick last night, but the replacement referees didn’t bite. When Renaldo Balkman was fouled late in the first half of last night’s preseason opener against the Jazz, Denver coach George Karl called time out… and then sent Aaron Afflalo to shoot the freebies. (Balkman shoots under [...]
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Eh, I don’t really believe that. Ol’ George seems to be a good guy. He’s done a lot of charity work. He has little use for Isiah Thomas, which obviously earns him points in my book. I’m just hoping Furious George’s lawyer will get into a snit and send me tons of free traffic. Y’know, [...]
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OK… so my assessment of Knicks/Nuggets couldn’t have been much farther off. That’s all right. I’ll take the win and live with the embarrassment of having my shortcomings displayed all over teh interwebz. Mea culpas aside… how did the Knicks beat the Nuggets? Renaldo Balkman is improving with every game. In the season opener, after [...]
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Tonight the Denver Nuggets return to Madison Square Garden for the first time since last December’s MSG Melee — and conditions are ripe for an example of running up the score that would make Bill Belichick blush. Well, maybe not Bill Belichick. Let’s review the factors leading up to the original fight: George Karl doesn’t [...]
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Note to ‘Melo… you’d seem much tougher if you didn’t sprint the length of the court backwards after landing a sucker-punch on a guy being held back by his coach. There’s nothing that unravels an NBA players’ carefully-cultivated tough-guy image faster than his performance in an actual fight, huh? I mean, Carmelo Anthony tries so [...]
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