The long-anticipated addition of Russell Westbrook to the Denver Nuggets roster is finally official ..read more

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic’s brother was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault in connection with a fight at Ball Arena during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in April. Strahinja Jokic, 41, is charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and appeared in Denver County Court on Tuesday, according to court records. Denver police first learned about the altercation through a viral TikTok video that showed “well-known family members of Denver Nuggets player Nikola Jokic engaging in an altercation with an unidentified fan in the stands,” according to an arrest affidavit. The ..read more

This year is supposed to be the start of a golden era for Olympic basketball, with competition more robust than ever and a not-so-distant future in sight where it’s no longer a foregone conclusion that Team USA wins gold. For now, that presumption persists, with another American superteam of cross-generational Hall of Famers gearing up for the 2024 Paris Olympics. But at the very minimum, it should be more fun than usual to watch their path to the championship. International growth for the sport has been exponential. Several of the NBA’s best players are suiting up for other countries this sum ..read more

First, Paul Pierce, the good news: The Grading The Week kids are absolutely with you on that whole Lakers-should-trade-Dalton Knecht rant. Heck, yeah. Get him outta there. No rookie deserves that circus, let alone a nice kid from Prairie View High. But the part about Russell Westbrook? Yeah, not so much. On Friday morning, the former NBA and Kansas star got Team GTW’s eyebrows up on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed” when he suggested Big Russ — assuming the Jazz buy Westbrook out and the Nuggets snap him up — should slot immediately into Denver’s starting five. “I kind of look at him (as) like a Jas ..read more

The Nuggets are signing Stanford’s Spencer Jones as their last two-way contract, a league source told The Denver Post. Jones has been on the Portland Trail Blazers’ Summer League roster this week in Las Vegas. The 6-foot-7 forward averaged 11.7 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals per game last season for the Cardinal. In a five-year college career, he shot 39.7% from 3-point range on 5.4 attempts per game, offering a combination of size and shooting that Denver found appealing. The Nuggets have now used all three of their two-way spots for the upcoming 2024-25 season. Jones will j ..read more

In the latest edition of the Nuggets Ink podcast, beat writer Bennett Durando and sports editor Matt Schubert reconvene with Russell Westbrook expected to soon join Denver in free agency. Among the topics discussed: Russell Westbrook is bound to be a Mile High favorite, but does he have enough left at nearly 36 years old to help the Nuggets return to the NBA Finals? Ideally, who can play alongside Westbrook on the second unit? Has the Nuggets’ starting five taken a step back this season with the loss of KCP? Are they deeper now than they were a year ago? Rookie DaRon Holmes II ruptured an Ac ..read more

Late last summer, Aleksandar Zigic was dining at a pizzeria in Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia, where it’s not unusual for him to be recognized by sports fans. As a U.S. correspondent for Serbia’s public broadcast network, he is one of the nation’s only media figures with regular access to its biggest basketball star. But Zigic was particularly taken aback and amused when the manager of the restaurant, a man he’d never met before, interrupted his meal with a question. “Why didn’t you persuade Nikola Jokic to go to the championship?” Jokic had decided to sit out the 2023 FIBA World Cup, wh ..read more

It took longer than usual, but the Nuggets (unofficially) have a full 15-man roster. The expected addition of former MVP Russell Westbrook should put a bow on Denver’s 2024 offseason, barring any eventual trades and the anticipated signing of DeAndre Jordan. Losing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope looms large, but general manager Calvin Booth has attempted to upgrade the bench through free agency, using every bit of roster-building wiggle room at his disposal after the Nuggets avoided the second tax apron by not re-signing Caldwell-Pope. Their roster payroll will still exceed the first apron, like las ..read more

The Denver Nuggets are preparing to acquire a fourth league MVP trophy. They’ll just need to dust this one off. The Nuggets plan to sign Russell Westbrook as a free agent after the future Hall of Famer clears waivers, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post. Westbrook picked up a $4 million player option in June to return to Los Angeles, where the Clippers began to seek out trade partners for the 2016-17 MVP. Mutual interest developed between the Nuggets and Westbrook, according to sources, and even Nikola Jokic endorsed the move. The market was otherwise dry, allowing the Nuggets to wait ..read more

Now that the first weekend of NBA Summer League is over, games throughout this week will probably feature less and less of the key rotation-caliber players. That certainly applies to the Nuggets. Standout guard Julian Strawther was in street clothes Tuesday at Denver’s 80-66 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, and he’ll likely be done for the duration of the team’s stay in Las Vegas. Here are three takeaways from the loss as the Nuggets fell to 0-3 at Summer League 2024. Trey Alexander could be this year’s impact two-way contract Alexander has comfortably been Denver’s second-best option in Las Veg ..read more