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• Michael Malone Says Nuggets Not Trading Michael Porter Jr.
Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone says the team is not trading forward Michael Porter Jr. These comments followed the Nuggets’ 125-113 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans in which Porter Jr. scored a season-high 36 points. He did so on 12-of-22 shooting that included seven triples. Porter Jr. has had his name floating across […] The post Michael Malone Says Nuggets Not Trading...2025
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• Nuggets’ Malone: “We’re Not Trading Michael Porter”
Michael Porter Jr. enjoyed his best game of the season on Monday, pouring in 36 points in 40 minutes en route to a 12-point victory over New Orleans. After the win, Nuggets head coach Michael Malone was asked if he’s touched base with Porter more frequently ahead of the February 6 deadline, given that the […]...2025
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• Nuggets HC makes bold statement on Michael Porter Jr.'s future

At least according to Nuggets head coach Michael Malone, Michael Porter Jr. isn't going anywhere at the trade deadline....2025
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• Michael Malone Says 'We're Not Trading Michael Porter'

Michael Malone said that the Denver Nuggets were not trading Michael Porter Jr. amid rumors leading up to the trade deadline. "We're not trading Michael Porter. So I'm not touching base with anybody on that. ... Michael is a really important piece, he helped us win a championship," said Malone following the Nuggets' win over the Pelicans on Monday night. Porter, who scored 36 points on Monday, is...2025
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Let’s jump around the league to find the players most likely to get relocated at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. In a now-annual tradition at SB Nation, we are scouring through the internet’s endless supply of NBA trade rumors and asking around our NBA team site network to ask our local experts (alongside some national analysis from yours truly) to see ...2025
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• NBA Rumors: Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr, Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga, Grizzlies

Nuggets The Nuggets may need to make a move and the name of Michael Porter Jr. has been the name mentioned most ahead of the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline. But would Denver actually do it? “If the Nuggets are going to swing a big deal, Porter’s $35.9 million salary almost has to be included,” […] The post NBA Rumors: Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr, Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga, Grizz...2025
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• Zach LaVine trade between Bulls-Nuggets makes sense for 11 reasons

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Let’s break down the Zach LaVine to the Nuggets trade rumor, plus grade the likelihood the deal actually happens Zach LaVine has lingered on the trade block for more than a year as the Chicago Bulls have been fully submerged in mediocrity. The market has been nearly silent for LaVine with teams worried about taking on large salaries under the new CBA, b...2024
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• 8 NBA teams that need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)

Photo by Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images We ranked eight NBA teams that need to make a move, and took our best shot at coming up with one trade each of them could pull off. It’s fake trade season in the NBA. It’s not actual trade season for a while. Teams don’t buy or sell when they either theoretically liked their roster going into the season or hated it but need teams to get more desperate b...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• MPJ: Team 'had my back' after brother's sentencing

Michael Porter Jr. said his teammates have had his back in recent days following the sentencing of his younger brother Coban Porter to six years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a woman in Colorado last year....2024
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• Every NBA Playoffs team, ranked by chances to win 2024 championship

Rob Gray-USA TODAY Sports Let’s rank the 16 teams in the 2024 NBA Playoffs by their championship chances. The 2024 NBA Playoffs don’t exactly feel wide open. There’s a superpower hanging over both the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference as the playoffs begin, but at this point NBA fans should know anything can happen in the postseason. Last year saw a wild run of upsets with the ...2024
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• Coban Porter, brother of Nuggets star, sentenced

Coban Porter, the younger brother of Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., has been sentenced to six years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a woman in Colorado last year....2024
• Are the Phoenix Suns NBA championship contenders or pretenders?

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Let’s take a deep dive into the Suns since Bradley Beal returned. When the Phoenix Suns pulled the trigger on a blockbuster deal to land Bradley Beal, they entered the “Super Team” club. They further cemented their status in this category when they inserted themselves in the Damian Lillard deal in order to nab the likes of Jusuf Nurkic and Grayson Allen. Un...2024
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• Northwest Notes: Porter Jr., Brown, Jazz, Leonard
Nuggets coach Michael Malone marvels at what Michael Porter Jr. can do athletically after three back surgeries. Porter wears a brace on his left leg due to those back injuries. “I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves,” Malone told Bennett Durando of the Denver Post. “What he’s doing has never been done before, from […]...2024
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• Every NBA team, ranked by their championship chances in 2023-2024 season

Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their championship chances for the 2023-2024 season. The NBA always feels like it’s at its best when there’s an elite tier of contenders. After two blockbuster trades to close the summer, it finally feels like that’s the case as the league enters the 2023-2024 season. The Bucks have added Damian Lillard to fix a struggling halfcourt offense in the playoffs. The ...2023
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• Nuggets’ Malone: “We’re Not Trading Michael Porter”
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• NBA Rumors: Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr, Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga, Grizzlies
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• Nuggets’ Malone, Porter Address Trade Rumors
The Nuggets and forward Michael Porter Jr. have been at the center of one of the biggest trade rumors so far this season, with reports indicating that Denver is exploring the possibility of making a deal for Bulls guard Zach LaVine. Porter’s cap hit of nearly $36MM would be necessary for matching purposes in a […]...2024
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Pistons, Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr., Heat, Jimmy Butler

The Detroit Pistons are quickly becoming the team to keep an eye on — not because they’re in the mix for bigger NBA names like Brandon Ingram, Jimmy Butler, or Zach LaVine, but because they’ve got something even more valuable: $14 million in salary cap space. As relayed by ESPN’s Bobby Marks, with almost a […] The post NBA Trade Rumors: Pistons, Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr., Heat,...2024
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• Zach LaVine trade between Bulls-Nuggets makes sense for 11 reasons
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• The Denver Nuggets might be cooked

Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images Starting the season 0-2 doesn’t mean things are hopeless for the Nuggets, but it does confirm some discouraging signs about their viability as an NBA championship contender. Are the Denver Nuggets bad? No, but that’s not going to cut it. The Western Conference is stacked to the nines with not-bad teams. The Spurs and the Trail Blazers are the on...2024
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• Michael Malone Says Nuggets Not Trading Michael Porter Jr.
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• Zach LaVine trade between Bulls-Nuggets makes sense for 11 reasons
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• The Denver Nuggets might be cooked
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• Lakers blame refs for blowing 20-point lead to Nuggets, and even their fans won’t buy it

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Sorry Lakers, but the refs weren’t the reason you blew a 20-point lead to the Nuggets. The Los Angeles Lakers finally had a win over the Denver Nuggets in their grasp. Down 1-0 in their first round series in the 2024 NBA Playoffs, the Lakers walloped Denver in the first half, opening up a 20-point lead early in the third quarter. Game over, right?...2024
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• How Michael Porter Jr. helped Nuggets defeat Lakers while dealing with ‘bad’ family drama

Porter Jr. scored 19 points versus the Lakers on Saturday night in Game 1....2024
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• How Michael Porter Jr. helped Nuggets defeat Lakers while dealing with ‘bad’ family drama
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Letter and the Banner, Again

Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, October 26th, 2023 We once again find ourselves a few blocks away from Coors Field. Instead of being at 20th and Blake we are at Speer and Chopper. Ball Arena, home of the Denver Nuggets, sits silent just two days after the NBA season tipped off within its walls. We’ve been here before. Almost exactly one year ago the Colorado Avalanche raised their 20...2023
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• Jamal Murray doesn’t play basketball, he perfects it
Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NBAE via Getty Images How Jamal Murray meditated, celebrated and visualized his way to the top of the NBA. There are some things you grow into, others out of, and rare things that never leave you. When Jamal Murray first shot an arrow it was at his Kentucky Wildcat teammate, E. J. Floreal, watching from the bench. Murray had fired off a corner 3-pointer, springing...2023
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• Nuggets first championship elicits memories of Broncos Super Bowl XXXII win
Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The comparisons between the two long-time franchises in Denver winning their first championships are vast. Disbelief. Euphoria. Dreamlike. All of the emotions fans of the Denver Nuggets are feeling right now and have the last two days is what Denver Broncos fans experienced on Jan. 25, 1998. And still are. The long...2023
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• Aaron Gordon needed the Nuggets as much as they needed him
Aaron Gordon’s evolution as a player happened right on time for the Nuggets. The rosters at the 2013 McDonald’s All-American Game were headlined by four combo forwards lined up at the top of the class recruiting rankings. Each player had a unique blend of skills they put on display during practice scrimmages at Attack Athletics on the West Side of Chicago. Andrew Wiggins was the Canadian mystery m...2023
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• The Nuggets are too big and too powerful for Heat in NBA Finals
Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images The Heat have been a tremendous Cinderella story, but the clock is about to strike midnight against Denver. The Denver Nuggets were the best team in the Western Conference all season long. And in Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals, they showed why they’re the best team in the NBA. It’s not because the Miami Heat completely shut down. While some players s...2023
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• How Nikola Jokic became the NBA’s version of Tom Brady
Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Jokic was a draft steal for the ages. Nikola Jokic is headed to his first NBA Finals, and all the momentum is with Denver. It’s the culmination of an incredible 10-year career that still feels like it’s just getting started, and came about in the most incredible way. Joker being on the verge of winning his first NBA championship is an opportunity to appreci...2023
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• The Nuggets are changing what an NBA championship contender is supposed to look like
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The NBA superteams all went bust. The steady Nuggets keep on rolling. Hours before the Eastern Conference’s Game 7, as the Denver Nuggets were finally going to learn if they would be facing Boston or Miami in the NBA Finals, Nuggets head coach Michael Malone sat down for a sanguine pre-Finals presser. He talked about how Denver had occupied themselv...2023
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• Porter puts onus on Clips' doctor for fall in draft
Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. blamed the prognosis of the Clippers' team doctor for his being passed up by L.A. twice in the 2018 draft....2020
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• Michael Porter Jr., Nuggets agree to five-year designated max extension worth up to $207 million, per report
Denver selected Porter with the 14th pick in the 2018 NBA Draft...2021
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• Nuggets' Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. unlikely to return for NBA playoffs, per report
Murray and Porter have combined to play in nine games this season...2022
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• Michael Porter Jr drops 36 Points & 15 Rebounds in State Quarterfinals
Nathan Hale, coach by Brandon Roy, stays undefeated at 27-0. The post Michael Porter Jr drops 36 Points & 15 Rebounds in State Quarterfinals appeared first on SLAMonline....2017
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• Nuggets president says Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. could return this season: 'It's up to them'
Denver has fared well without two of their key players so far this season...2022
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• Michael Porter Jr & Brandon Roy Named Naismith National HS Player of the Year & Coach of the Year
After leading Nathan Hale HS to a perfect 29-0 season, the duo sweep Naismith national awards. The post Michael Porter Jr & Brandon Roy Named Naismith National HS Player of the Year & Coach of the Year appeared first on SLAMonline....2017
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• Missouri's Porter Jr. (back) likely out for season
Missouri freshman forward Michael Porter Jr. will have back surgery and he is likely out for the remainder of the season, the school announced on Tuesday....2017
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Jaren Jackson Jr. and Michael Porter Jr. make the list

Who are the fantasy basketball players on the rise? And whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2023
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• Zach LaVine trade between Bulls-Nuggets makes sense for 11 reasons
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• Clearly, Nuggets Must Address Staggering Lack Of Depth

Nikola Jokic. Jamal Murray. Michael Porter Jr. Aaron Gordon. The rising Christian Braun. The Nuggets undoubtedly have one of the best starting fives in the NBA. Especially Jokic. But they can’t carry on this way. The bench is among the worst. And in the Western Conference, you can’t expect to contend when that’s the case. […] The post Clearly, Nuggets Must Address Staggerin...2024
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• Lakers blame refs for blowing 20-point lead to Nuggets, and even their fans won’t buy it
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• LeBron James rips officiating, replay center after overturned call in Lakers’ loss to Nuggets
LeBron James ripped the officiating Monday following the Los Angeles Lakers’ 101-99 loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series, specifically calling out a third-quarter shooting foul the NBA’s replay center overturned. “I don’t understand what’s going on in the replay center, to be honest,” James said. The play in question came in the fin...2024
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• LeBron James fumes over controversial calls in Lakers’ playoff collapse

At the heart of his wrath was a second-half foul of Michael Porter Jr. that was overturned with the league saying MPJ had made only marginal contact on D'Angelo Russell....2024
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• Michael Porter Jr. praises Nuggets teammates for support during emotional week

Porter spoke to reporters about the support he's received from teammates following the Denver Nuggets' Game 1 win over the Los Angeles Lakers in their first-round NBA playoff series....2024
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• Bruce Brown’s big bet on himself is about to pay off after NBA Finals
Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Bruce Brown went from feeling like no team believed in him to one of the top free agents on the market after the Nuggets’ championship run. As Bruce Brown Jr. did multiple dribble moves, stepped back and shot a three-pointer, Nikola Jokic threw his hands in the air in confusion; a reaction that likely many Denver Nuggets fans watching also...2023
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• How Nikola Jokic became the NBA’s version of Tom Brady
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• NBA Scores: Nuggets sweep Lakers, advance to Finals for first time
Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images 47 years as a franchise, a lone trip to the Finals. Feels like destiny, doesn’t it? Nuggets finish off Lakers, 113-111, advance to first NBA Finals in franchise history There has never been a player like Nikola Jokic. So it’s only fitting that he takes his team to the brink of the Promised Land with a string of performances unlike any we’ve ev...2023
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• NBA Scores: Jokic-less Nuggets top Warriors to close in on top seed in West
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Plus everything else you may have missed from a busy Sunday in the NBA. Nuggets fend off Warriors without Jokic, 112-110 I’ve felt this way for some time, but wins like this one on Sunday reassert things for me: Denver is the best team in the Western Conference. Playing without their perennial MVP candidate, Nikola Jokic (calf tightness, with which he’...2023
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• Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. makes shocking admission after massive contract extension
Michael Porter Jr. is officially a hundred millionaire after getting a massive extension from the Denver Nuggets. But he certainly isn’t acting like that’s the case. Instead of celebrating, the Nuggets star surprisingly claimed that he didn’t deserve the massive windfall coming his way. According to him, he just happened to have the correct set […] The post Nuggets’ M...2021
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