While the top teams in the Western Conference bolstered their rosters by adding big name free agents, the Denver Nuggets largely stayed the course. That's because they think the nucleus of a championship squad is already in place. "We're good," Kenyon Martin said Friday. "I think other teams made moves after looking at where we were." The Nuggets went on quite a journey last season as their band of misfits bonded together to reach the conference championships for the first time since 1985... Read Full Story
The Quest is proud to announce to you that the second major improvement to Real Player Ratings (RPR) in less than half a year is now fully up and running. We are now certain that RPR is the best overall rating system in existence, and that it is now roughly as good as it will ever or can ever be. I recently developed a statistically valid way to rate the defending of players, that is, what they do to prevent scores other than rebounding, blocks, steals, and fouls, which were always included... Read Full Story
Nene is the MVP in terms of quality and Chauncey Billups is the MVP in terms of quantity for the Denver Nuggets so far in the 2008-09 season. DENVER NUGGETS REAL PLAYER RATINGS Quality of Players Includes all tracked actions and adjustments for hidden defending 2008-09 Regular Season As of Feb 20, 2009 Nene Hilario 0.864 Carmelo Anthony 0.860 Chauncey Billups 0.859 Chris Andersen 0.755 J.R. Smith 0.749 Kenyon Martin 0.724 Renaldo Balkman 0.716 Anthony Carter 0.652 Linas Kleiza 0.558 Dahntay... Read Full Story
Editorial Notice: Quest for the Ring will be between now and the end of 2009 providing a complete Real Player Rating Series Report, like the one below, for each and every 2009 West Final game, for each and every 2009 East Final game, and for each game in the 2009 NBA Final Series. The Mavericks-Nuggets West Semifinal series is also being covered this way in full. Following the posting of the Real Player Ratings Series Reports, we will post the Real Game Ratings Reports for all of these games... Read Full Story
Editorial Notice: Quest for the Ring will be between now and the end of 2009 providing a complete Real Player Rating Series Report, like the one below, for each and every 2009 West Final game, for each and every 2009 East Final game, and for each game in the 2009 NBA Final Series. The Mavericks-Nuggets West Semifinal series is also being covered this way in full. Following the posting of the Real Player Ratings Series Reports, we will post the Real Game Ratings Reports for all of these games... Read Full Story
Free Sports Picks by Tony T
On Tuesday night the Golden St Warriors will visit the mile high to face the Denver Nuggets in an NBA Basketball game. They tip off at 9PM Eastern Time and you can view this one on the NBA package. With our free pick we will play the Golden St Warriors and Denver Nuggets to play over the total of 233.
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Denver will be focused tonight after dropping an embarrassing loss to Minnesota two days ago. You can expect a much difference effort... Read Full Story
The Denver Nuggets, who lost Dahntay Jones and Linas Kleiza to free agency, have fulfilled one of coach George Karl's offseason wishes with the re-signing of backup point guard Anthony Carter. Nuggets executive Mark Warkentien said: "AC's loyalty to (owner) Stan Kroenke, George Karl and Denver is exemplary; rarely seen in professional athletics today." Carter has averaged 5.2 points, 4.1 assists and 2.2 rebounds over his 10-year NBA career with Miami, San Antonio, Minnesota and Denver. In... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carmelo Anthony scored a game-high 34 points and nine rebounds as the Denver Nuggets upset the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers 106-103 on Thursday to level their Western Conference finals series at 1-1. The lead changed hands three times in a nail-biting fourth quarter before two free throws from Chauncey Billups put the Nuggets ahead 105-101 with just 13.7 seconds left. Although Spanish forward Pau Gasol countered with two free throws for the Lakers, Billups was... Read Full Story
Carmelo Anthony scored 31 points Wednesday night, helping the Denver Nuggets stave off the Oklahoma City Thunder 122-112 for their eighth straight win. Linas Kleiza scored 12 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter for the Nuggets, who inched closer to the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs with their ninth straight win at the Pepsi Center. Nene added 23 points and Chauncey Billups 18, including every one in an 11-2 spurt the Nuggets used to finally get control of the game in the... Read Full Story
Thursday night the Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns had a roller coaster game that would start out with the Suns looking like they were heading for an easy win after the first quarter, would end regulation with the score tied 103-103, and would finish with the Nuggets winning the contest in overtime by the score of 119-113. The victory was the seventh win in the last eight games for Denver. Chauncey Billups was the game’s leading scorer with 26 points, Kenyon Martin added 24, and center... Read Full Story
